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Is not to die." 



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PREFACE 



Upwards of two years and a half having elapsed since the 
publication of the Worthies of Leeds, $fc, the Compiler, having 
during that time continued his researches, has (by himself 
and through the intimation of friends) found out the names 
and particulars of several eminent men, connected with 
Leeds and neighbourhood, that have been omitted ; that 
omission he has now, to the best of his ability, endeavoured 
to supply; and in addition to the Biographical Sketches of 
above twenty earlier Worthies, about thirty recent Memoirs 
have also been given, a list of whom, in chronological order, 
is inserted on the following page. There will also be found, 
towards the conclusion, a long chronological list of Portraits, 
Sfc, of the most distinguished Leeds Worthies.* 

Towards an additional Supplement, should one be 
required in two or three years' time, information respecting 
either any that have been given, or any that may still have 
been omitted, would be gladly received, by Mr. John Smith, 
18, Commercial Street, Leeds; or, by the Compiler, 

E. Y. TAYLOE, B.A. 

Alfokd, Lincolnshire, 
October 10th, 1867. 



* " If this parish have not, like some Attic soils in the kingdom, been 
remarkable in giving birth to men whose souls, ' touched to fine issues,' 
challenge the admiration and eternal gaze of posterity, it has assuredly not 
been barren in talented and memorable individuals. This volume can claim 
some, as natives of Leeds, &c. , to whom Knowledge largely unrolled her 
ample page : men who have justly been awarded an honourable station in 
our country's Temple of Fame, and whose names are inscribed in the never- 
fading page of Literature and Science."— See James's History of Bradford, &c. 



CONTENTS; 



CHKONOLOGXCAL LIST 



PAGE 

Title Page 545 

Dedication 546 

Preface .. ..547 

Chronological List 548 

A.D. 

1253. Robert G-rostete, Bishop . . 549 

1555. Mr. Robert Braham .. . . 551 

1590. Augustine Ryther 551 

1620. Mr. Thomas Atkinson . . 551 

1653. Richard Dean, General, &c. . . 551 

1655. Henry Tilson, Bishop . . . . 55S 

1670. Rev. Edwd. Reyner, M.A. . . 559 

1675. Rev Francis Roberts, D.D. 559 

1685. Rev. John Nalson, LL.D. ..561 

1693. Rev. Thomas Sharp, A.M. 563 

1702. Castilion Morris, Esq. 565 

John Morris, Colonel . . . . 565 

1705. Rev. Christr. Nesse, A.M. ..566 

1705. Mr. Robert N esse 566 

1707. Rev. Christr. Wilkinson . . 566 

1708. Rev. Edmund Hickeringill 568 
1710. Rev. Thomas AVMtaker . . . . 572 

1720. Rev. Miles Gale, M.A. .. 575 

1721. Rev. George Plaxton, M.A. . . 576 

1735. John Moore, Esq 576 

1738. John Asgill, Esq., M.P. .. 577 

1741. Thos. Nettleton, Esq., M.D. 581 

1744. Rev. William Bowman, M.A. 581 

1747. Lieut-General Joshua Guest 584 

1750. Rev. Thomas Barnard, M.A. 584 

1750. Mr. John Lucas 584 

1759. Mr. David Casley .. .. 585 

1760. Mr. Thomas Wilson, F.S.A. . . 587 
1772. G. Knight, Esq.. M.D.,F.R.S. 589 

1806. Samuel Buck, Esq 590 

1807. Mr. John Rathbone . . .590 



A.D. PAGE. 

1812. Mr. R. H. Croinek . . . . 591 

Mr. T. M. Cromek 591 

1817. Mr. Julius Caesar Ibbotson 592 
1838. Rev. Samuel Marsden . . . . 593 
1845. Rev. Joseph Procter, D.D. 599 
1858. Mr. William Bowman . . . . 599 

1860. Lieut-Col. Jno.Jas. Brandling 599 

1861. John Clapham, Esq 600 

1861. James Richardson, Esq. . . 600 
1865, April. Hon.E.Lascelles,D.C.L. 601 
1865, May. John Blackburn, Esq. 601 
1865, June. J. Prince Garlick, Esq. 601 
1865, June. H. Stansfeld, Esq., J.P. 602 
1865, June. Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff 604 
1865, Sept. Mr. George Linley . . 606 
1865, Oct. Rev. F. T. Rowell, M.A. 608 
1865, Oct. Rev. Joshua Hart, B.A. 608 

1865, Nov. Rev. A. J. Brameld 608 

1866, Jan. Mr. Joshua Major . . 609 
1866, Mar. Mrs. E. Craven Green 610 
1866, Mar. Mr. Barnett Blake . . 611 
1866, April. Hon. Judge Hargreave, 614 
1866, June. Rev. C. H. Collier, M.A. 621 
1866, Aug. Newman Cash, Esq. . . 621 
1866, Sept. John Smith, Esq., J.P. 621 
1866, Dec. Rev. E. Monro, M.A. . . 623 

1866, Dec. Rev. .J. L. Sisson, D.D. 630 

1867, Jan. Edwin Eddison, Esq. 631 
1867, Feb. C. J. Knowles,Esq..,Q.C. 633 
1867, April. John Gott, Esq., J.P. 634 
1788. Benj. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S. .. 639 

List of Portraits, &c 649 

Leeds Longevity 674 

Leeds Books, &c 706 

Recent Appointments 707 

Alphabetical List 708 



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LEEDS WORTHIES 



1175—1253 
EOBEET GEOSTETE, BISHOP * 

(For Page 65 of "Leeds Worthies:') 

When William the Conqueror laid siege to York, Adam 
Copley, of Batley, near Leeds, went forth, to meet him, and 
died in the beleaguered city. This Adam was the founder of 
a celebrated race, which had its home at Batley for many 
generations. His grandson or great-grandson Ealph Copley, 
was the father of a man of whom England will ever be proud. 

* For a very long and interestina" account of Robert Grosseteste, GrosUte, or 
Grosthead, Bishop of Lincoln, and the most learned ecclesiastic of his time, 
whose real surname was Copley, son of Ralph Copley (who was the son 
of Thomas Copley, Esq., of Batley, near Leeds, by Winifrid, daughter of 
Thomas Mirfield, Esq., of Mirfield), by Mary, daughter and heiress of 
Sir Richard Walsingham, of Suffolk, Knt., which shows Bishop Godwyn 
to be in error when he asserts that he was born of mean or base parentage. 
The fact of his being born at Stradbrook, in Suffolk, instead of at Batley, 
near Leeds, was accidentally owing to his father serving there at that time 
in the king's army. He was also younger brother to Adam Copley, Esq., 
of Batley, near Leeds. — See the Church of England Magazine for 1838, 
p. 268, &c. ; also, the Biog. Diet, of Chalmers, Rose, &c. ; Watt's Bibliotheca 
Britannica, 1824 ; Lowndes' Bibliographers' Manual, 1857 ; Darling's Cyclo- 
pedia Bibliographica, &c. ; Wilson's Hist. Reg. (MSS. in Leeds Library) ; 
Thoresby's Due. Leod., pp. 10, 11, 100 (for their pedigree, coat-of-arms, &c.) ; 
Godwyn's Catalogue, p. 298 ; Dupin's Eccles. Hist. cent. , xiii. , pp. 62-3 ; 
Mag. Brit., ii., 1466; Fuller's Worthies (in Suffolk), p. 57; Pits, p. 326; 
Turner, p. 345 ; and especially " Life of Robert Grosseteste, by Samuel 
Pegge, LL.D.," 1793, 4to., which almost supersedes the necessity of any 
other reference, except perhaps to Milner's Church History, which has ably 
analyzed the Bishop's character as a divine; and the Archceologia, vol. xiii., 
where he is introduced as an Anglo-Norman poet. — See also Notes and Queries, 
1st Series, v., 296, "Life, bv Wilson;" 2nd Series, vi., 88, "The Testament 
of the Twelve Patriarchs;"' vii., 218, viii., 416, 539, "Castle of Love;" 
x., 47, Work on Husbandry, &c. 
M M' 



550 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSI8. 

That man was Robert Copley, surnamed Grosseteste, the 
celebrated Bishop of Lincoln. Ralph Copley, then servant at 
the King's Court, married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Sir 
Richard Walsingham, Knt., of Suffolk, and their son was 
born at Shotbrook or Stodbrook, in Suffolk. The boy entered 
the Church, was educated at Oxford and in France, returned 
to England, was made Archdeacon of Leicester, and after- 
wards consecrated Bishop of Lincoln on the 11th June, 1235. 
He died at his palace of Bugden, 9th Oct., 1253, and is 
buried in the upper part of the South transept of Lincoln 
Cathedral. Grosseteste has been styled one of the harbingers 
of the Eeformation. His labours were a continued protest 
against Papal encroachments in promoting strangers to bene- 
fices in England. He was a very industrious author, and of 
universal genius. Before the civil war almost 300 of his 
treatises, on various subjects, were in the King's library at 
Westminster, which Bishop Williams intended to print in 
three vols., folio, but was prevented by the troublous times. 
There is abundance of his MSS. in the Bodleian library on 
theology, astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, and from 
these abstruse and wearisome subjects the Bishop was wont 
to turn for recreation into the sweet paths of poesy. He 
wrote a poem in French verse, which is in the Bodleian 
library. Its title is "De Principio CreationisMundi." There 
is a brief Memoir of the Bishop, in the edition of his letters, 
published under the direction of the Master of the Polls. 
The editor says of him, " there is scarcely a character in 
English history whose fame has been more constant, both 
during and after his life, than Pobert Grosseteste, Bishop of 
Lincoln, from 1235 to 1253." The nickname of the man has 
given us the secret of his greatness. The big-headed Bishop 
(Grostete), with his clear, practical, and vigorous intellect, 
was worthy of the country which produced Wickliffe, and the 
many other noble reformers, whose toil and learning sepa- 
rated us from the errors of the past. Batley must be proud 
of Bishop Grosseteste, for he was the best and greatest of her 
sons. A contemporary (Matthew Paris) says of him. : — 
" During his life he had openly lebuked the Pope and the 
King ; had corrected the prelates, and reformed the monks ; 
in him the priests lost a director, clerks an instructor, scholars 
a supporter, and the people a preacher ; he had shown 
himself a persecutor of the incontinent, a careful examiner of 
the different Scriptures, and a bruiser and despiser of the 
Romans. He was hospitable and profuse ; civil, cheerful, 



RICHARD DEAN, GENERAL. 551 

and affable at the table for partaking of bodily nourishment ; 
and at the spiritual table devout, mournful, and contrite In 
the discharge of his pontifical duties, he was attentive, 
indefatigable, and worthy of veneration." — See the Leeds 
Intelligencer for June 2, 1866, &c. 

-1653.* 
EICHAED DEAN, GKENEKAL. 

(EorPage90.) 
During the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth there 
lived in Leeds and its neighbourhood a family of manufactu- 
rers of the name of Dean. Their name is to be met with in 
records relating to this part of the country at a period earlier 
than that of which we speak, but nothing is discovered to 
give them a distinction above the rest of their fellow-citizens. 
No doubt it was by their industry and success as manufactu- 
rers they gained wealth, and it was through that wealth they 
first gained local importance. f 

About the year 1600 William Dean was a dyer in Swine- 
gate. In his hands trade had prospered sufficiently to enable 
him to become a freeholder. The premises wherein he carried 
on his business were his own ; they were situate behind those 
mills in Swinegate then, as now, called the "King's Mills, " 
because they belonged to the Crown. Wm. Lindley, Esquire, 

*— 1555— Mr. Robert Bkaham, an excellent poet, author of "The History 
of the Wars of the Trojans," translated from the Italian of Guy Callumna, 
fol., Lond., 1555, was born at Leedes, in Yorkshire. — See "Wilson's Historical 
Registers, vol. i. (MSS. in Leeds Old Library.) 

— 1590 — Augustine Rytheb, a native of Leedes, in Yorkshire, and a 
noted engraver of copper-plates in London. Author of: (1.) "A Discourse 
concerning the Spanish Fleet invading England in 1588," translated from 
the Italian of Petruccio Ubaldino, 4to., Lond., 1590, and reprinted in Marl. 
Miscell. , 1744 ; (2) Saxton's larger maps, engraved by him ; (3) Maps of the 
Counties of Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Yorkshire ; and assisted 
Christopher Saxton in Gloucestershire, &c. ; (4) A Map of England, &c. — 
See Wilson's Historical Registers, Lowndes' Bibliographers' Manual, &c. 

— 1620 — Thomas Atkinson, a native of Leedes, in Yorkshire, was Master 
of the Mint, at Edinburgh, about 1620. He was author of a " History of 
Metals in Scotland," MSS. in the late Dr. Sibbald's library. — See Wilson's 
Historical Registers, &c. 

+ Their name at once proves their Saxon origin, and the insignificance of 
the first members of their family. The word " Dean" signifies a dale, and 
it is yet applied to dales in some of the hill-districts of the West-Riding. 
The Deans therefore received their name from the fact that they were the 
simple, uncouth inhabitants of some dale, apart from towns, and unskilled 
in trades, from which other men afterwards derived their surnames. We 
are almost justified in saying tbeir very name carries with it proof of a 
sturdy, unconquerable love of independence which caused the early Deans 
to fly into the wilderness, and so separate themselves as much as possible 
from Norman influence and Norman subjugation. 



552 BIOGBAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

of Leathley, the farmer of tlie mills under Queen Elizabeth, 
chose to pick a quarrel with the prosperous dyer, who had 
increased his premises in the direction of the royal property. 
Dean had erected a new building over against the mill-wheel, 
and this act had given offence to Lindley, who forthwith com- 
menced a law-suit against the dyer, on the ground that, 
although erected upon Dean's land, the new building was 
injurious to the interests of the Crown, inasmuch as it pre- 
vented the sun from shining upon the mill-wheels in winter. 
The suit was tried at York, but the unsympathising jurymen, 
who could not be brought to see the reason why her Majesty's 
mill-wheels required the mocking, heatless rays of a winter 
sun to fall upon them, gave a verdict in favour of the dyer. 
This protest against tyranny supported by regal power, may 
be taken as an assurance that the Deans were men of indom- 
itable resolution of purpose, for there were few men who 
dared to oppose her most gracious Majesty Elizabeth, Queen 
of England, France, and Ireland.* 

Richard Dean, the subject of this memoir, is said by Wilson 
to have been the son or grandson of the above William : we 
incline te consider him the latter. Than this bald statement 
of the reluctant chronicler we know nothing more of the future 
hero until we find him a great and prominent man, whose 
actions are noticed in the chronicles of the age in which he 
lived and moved. Of his parentage, of his boyhood, of the 
developement of his mind, of the inclination of his thoughts, 
of his early exploits, and of his early avocations, we know no 
more than if he had never lived. Heath is the only historian 
who speaks as to his origin. In that writer's account of the 
Regicides, we learn that Dean "was formerly a hoyman's 
servant at Ipswich, and when the war began was a matross in 
the train of artillery, and rose to a captain's command therein; 
and was famous first at the siege of Exeter, and being a cross 
fellow, was thought fit to be one of Cromwell's complices, to 
execute his plots against his Sovereign's life." The exact 
amount of truth contained in this statement we cannot point 

* This William Dean is the last of his race whom we can clearly show to 
have been settled in Leeds. Wilson, the antiquary, who succeeded Thoresby 
as the historian of the town, and continued to chronicle events until the 
middle of the eighteenth century, possessed the documents referring to 
Dean's law-suit, and had an opportunity of learning the leading facts relating 
to the family. But he did not do so, and the reason is perfectly obvious. 
Wilson was a royalist of the narrowest and most bigoted kind, the Deans 
were Parliamentarians of the most uncompromising and sinful caste ; there- 
fore it was through political delinquencies, especially those of the one great 
member of their family, that no account of thtm should be recorded. . 



RICHARD DEAN, GENERAL. 55 3 

out. If ever Dean was a hoyman's servant at Ipswich, we 
are at a loss to explain how he became such ; but that he 
was famous first at the seige of Exeter we can deny. The 
city of Exeter was delivered to Lord Fairfax on the 3rd of 
April, 1646, yet two years previous to that event Dean was 
an officer of some note in the army of the Earl of Essex, and 
his name appears among those of the officers of that army 
who signed the attestation concerning the surrender to the 
King at Lestithiel, in the month of August, 1644. In the 
•'Squire Papers" published by Carlyle, the names of two 
persons, H. Deane and R. Deane, are given amongst those 
who were " hearty" to the cause ; and one of these was cap- 
tain of a troop — of Ironsides probably. As Dean's name does 
not appear among the names of officers of the first Parlia- 
mentary army, we must suppose he joind the service as a 
volunteer, zealous, but ignorant of military matters, after 
hostilities had actually commenced. 

Two years of hard fighting had expired before Dean raised 
himself into historic notice. When Fairfax and Cromwell 
were chasing Rupert's broken army from Marston Moor, 
Dean was with the Earl of Essex rapidly winning victories for 
the Parliament in the distant counties of Devon and Cornwall. 
A series of easy victories, rapidly obtained, had enabled Essex 
to penetrate into the very heart of the enemy's country. The 
most complete success seemed within his grasp. Before him 
and around him were the sea and a few broken fugitives who 
fled only to delay the hour of capitulation. Behind him was 
a conquered country left unoccupied and unheeded. That 
fatal neglect of the first duty of a general, the securing of a line 
of retreat, and a base of communication, was his speedy ruin. 
So long as Waller could maintain his supremacy over the 
Royalists in and about Oxford, Essex was safe from attack. 
But just before Rupert's defeat on Marston Moor, Charles 
had gained a slight advantage over Waller, and now Essex's 
rear was left exposed to sudden and disastrous attack; a 
ready opportunity was offered to a bold commander to cut off 
the Parliamentary army from all hope of succour. The King 
saw his chance, and immediately availed himself of it. By a 
decisive stroke promptly given some Cornish down might yet 
be the scene of an action which would balance Rupert's 
terrible mishap in the north. At Lestithiel, in Cornwall, 
Essex turned at bay to meet his enemies. On the 6th of 
August, 1644, the King took up his quarters atLiskard. No 
sooner did Essex learn the presence of his foes, than he appre- 



554 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS 

hended the magnitude of his danger. In his rear was an 
army superior in numbers to his own, his communications 
with his friends were severed effectually, and he was left 
isolated. The exhausted condition of his troops showed how 
hopeless was the chance of success in battle against the fresh 
troops of the King ; and after the Earl had escaped by sea, 
his army capitulated. It was in this unfortunate predicament 
that Dean first raised himself into notice, by forcibly represent- 
ing to his general the disorganization of the army, and its 
incompetence to cope with the enemy, who, flushed and 
vigorous, were rapidly surrounding them. Upon the strength 
of this advice Essex departed, after nominating Skippon to 
command, but without giving further orders. Skippon forth- 
with arranged the articles of surrender. The arms, artillery, 
and ammunition, were to be given up ; the troops — officers 
and soldiers alike — were granted their liberty; and a regiment 
of Royalist horse was detached to escort them in safety to the 
next Parliamentary garrisons of Pool or Wareham. 

It was during the campaign of 1645 that Dean established 
his military renown, and commenced that close friendship with 
Cromwell which terminated only in death. He fought with 
Cromwell at Naseby ; he shared in the triumphant march 
through the western counties ; he took a prominent part in 
the siege of Bristol, as the comptroller of the ordnance ; he 
was one who dictated terms to Lord Hopton at Truro ; and he 
stood before Oxford to force Charles into submission when he 
had retreated there as to the last place in his kingdom which 
could offer him even a temporary asylum. 

After the termination of the war, when it was urged there 
was no necessity for the maintenance of a body of soldiers 
larger than was required to prosecute the Irish war, and pre- 
serve order in the "kingdom, Dean was appointed to the 
command of the artillery which was to be sent into Ireland. 
The peculiar turn military matters were taking in England, 
through the dispute between the army and the parliament, 
seems to furnish the reason why he did not go. The army 
was republican ; the opponents of the army were royalists ; 
and as Dean was a republican of the most uncompromising 
caste, it was only to be expected that he would remain at 
home where his counsel and advice might further the grand 
object of all his efforts. In all the important transactions, 
therefore, which preceded the execution of the King, we find 
Dean taking a prominent part on the side of the army and 
against those who sympathised with monarchy. He was 



RICHARD DEAN, GENERAL. 555 

colonel of a regiment of foot, under Cromwell, at the siege of 
Pembroke Castle ; lie was again with him at the battle of 
Preston, Aug. 20th, 1648, when Oliver defeated the Scotch 
under the Duke of Hamilton. 

On the 23rd December the Commons voted that the King 
should be brought to trial. In the interval between the 
purging of the House of Commons and the passing of this 
vote, Dean had been one of the few with whom Cromwell 
was wont "to consider and confer how the settlement of the 
kingdom might be best effected." Dean's most unqualified 
advice would be in favour of the erection of a Eepublic. With 
this predisposition to put away the poor tyrant whom he had 
so strenuously helped to crush, Pichard Dean was appointed 
one of the judges for the trying of the King, by the Act for 
erecting a High Court of Justice. He sedulously attended 
the several meetings of the Court, and signed his name to 
the King's death-warrant in bold, regular characters, very 
unlike those of a hoyman's servant. 

That Dean was a shrewd and energetic man, possessed of 
more than ordinary administrative talents, as well as a 
skilful commander, we cannot doubt. When his party was 
triumphant we find him placed in very responsible situations 
in the political world, and we have evidence to prove that he 
fulfilled the duties of those situations in the most satisfactory 
manner. When Cromwell called together a Parliament, 
Colonels Dean, Popham, and Blake were transferred from 
the land-service to the navy, and for some months they were 
in command of naval squadrons guarding the Channel, or 
watching the coasts of Ireland, where Rupert had taken that 
part of the English navy which still adhered to the King ; 
where Ormond upheld the royal cause with an army of con- 
siderable force ; and where Cromwell was smiting his enemies 
with a strong and terrible hand. In March, 1650-1, Dean, 
Popham, and Blake were, by Act of Parliament, constituted 
Admirals and Generals of the Pleet, but when Charles Stuart 
attempted to make war upon the Commonwealth, Dean again 
took up his military command, and we find him acting a 
distinguished part at that " crowning success," the battle of 
Worcester. 

After Worcester, the royal cause was everywhere regarded 
as hopeless. Scotland submitted to the rule of the Protector, 
and on the 24th October, Dean was sent into that country as 
one of the commissioners appointed to manage its civil affairs. 
They found it disturbed and dissatisfied ; they left it with at 



556 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

least a semblance of liberty prospering everywhere. They 
freed the people from the tyranny of their ministers ; they 
maintained order and peace ; they administered justice ; and 
they left the country happy and flourishing. Dean seems to 
have been the chief of the commissioners, at least it was 
under his personal direction that the many reforms were 
carried out, and he certainly received the praise for the happy 
results. On the 14th May, 1652, the Parliament of England 
ordered a letter of thanks to be prepared and sent to Major- 
General Dean, for his extraordinary care and pains in 
managing the affairs of Scotland. Sir Henry Mildmay was 
to prepare the letter, and the Speaker was to sign it. This 
was a full recognition of his eminent services, and it was a 
recognition which did the greatest honour to the man, and 
was worthy of his every effort. 

When the naval war broke out between the English and 
the Dutch, Dean entered upon his command as an Admiral 
conjointly with General Monk. What his knowledge of naval 
affairs was at the outset of his naval career we cannot say : 
but if he was not an expert seaman, he appears to have been 
very apt to learn the duties of one. A few cruises on the 
river Aire he might have indulged in when a boy, but he 
could certainly gain little knowledge from them. And yet 
he must have been competent in the management of a ship. 
Clarendon, who was his contemporary, says he was a " meer 
seaman, grown, from a common mariner, to the reputation of 
a bold and excellent officer." This account is doubtless very 
wrong as to the origin of the Admiral, but it is likely to be 
right as to his worth as a commander. Clarendon would hear 
the details of the glorious battle in which the Admiral fell, 
but he would not know the young Republican who started in 
the race for glory from a dyehouse in Leeds. 

The first great engagement with the Dutch was Dean's 
last. It commenced on the 2nd day of June, 1653, and at 
the first broadside, Dean was slain by a cannon ball which 
struck him in the breast. He was standing by the side of 
Monk when he fell, and his death seems to have been the 
cause of some consternation to the seamen of his ship. Monk 
covered the dead body with his cloak, and commanded the 
seamen to attend to their duty. A two days' action brought 
a complete victory to the English. Yan Tromp, the most 
experienced naval officer of the day, saw his fleet taken or 
dispersed, and himself compelled to fly. The rejoicings of the 
English were greatly saddened by the death of Dean. In the 



EICHARD DEAN, GENERAL. 557 

report of the action which Monk transmitted to the Commis- 
sioner of the Admiralty he speaks of Dean as " an honest and 
able servant to this Commonwealth." The admiral's mutilated 
body was taken to Greenwich, where it was received with 
mournful sadness. The 23rd of June (N.S. 3rd of July) was 
set apart by the English Parliament as a day of devotion and 
thanksgiving for their great victory, and it was generally 
kept throughout the city. On the 24th the Admiral was 
buried. The corpse was placed on board a barge, which was 
followed up the river by a procession of barges and boats, all 
in mourning equipage. As the procession passed along, the 
ships in the river discharged their guns, the batteries of the 
Tower thundered forth their dismal salute, and the solemn 
peal was continued by other guns placed on the banks of the 
river even up to the Abbey. The arrangements of Dean's 
funeral seem to have been those afterwards observed at the 
burial of his famous comrade, Blake. After the procession 
had landed at Westminster Bridge it passed through a guard 
of several regiments of soldiers, drawn up to do the last 
military honours to the deceased commander. Cromwell 
himself was there with the chief men of his Government. All 
the pomp and ceremony of military parade were exhausted to 
do honour to his memory. The corpse was carried through 
New Palace Yard to the Abbey, and was interred among the 
bodies of the greatest men of the land in the chapel of Henry 
7th. It remained there in quiet repose until the 12th Sept., 
1661, when the returned King dragged forth the mouldering 
bones, along with those of many other Republican heroes, 
and threw them into a pit dug for their reception, in St, 
Margaret's church-yard, close by. 

Dean left a widow and children. From the day of his 
death till that of his burial the Parliament allowed them £100 
per diem in consideration of the very eminent services he had 
rendered to the Commonwealth. Thurloe tells us they after- 
wards received an estate " in very good land " of the value of 
£600 per annum. Of his domestic affairs we have been 
unable to learn anything further.* 

* In religion Dean was a Behemist, and when lie went into action it was 
said that he was fully conscious of his impending fate. In the morning of 
the day of his death he spent two hours at his devotions. It was not an 
unusual thing in him to spend much time in prayer ; but, on this occasion, 
his friends noticed a melancholy expression upon his countenance almost 
indicative of timorousness. Nobody could doubt his courage, it had been 
too often tried ; so the story which had been spoken of by his old and 
intimate friends was adopted, viz., that he palpably felt upon him the hand 



558 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Between the admiral and the Eepublican family of Baynes, 
of Knosthorpe, a close intimacy seems to have existed. Either 
Adam Baynes, whom Cromwell summoned to Parliament as 
Member for Leeds, or his next descendant, obtained "an 
excellent portrait" of the admiral, supposed to have been 
painted by Verelst. This picture remained at Knosthorpe 
until 1756, when it was sold by Mr. Robert Baynes to 
Mr. Jere Dixon. It is now in the possession of Mr. W. Pollard, 
of Chapeltown. — For further particulars respecting Dean, see 
Heath's Chronicle, Rushworth's Collections, Whitelock's 
Memorials ; and also, the Yorkshire Post, for Jan. 26th, Feb. 
2nd, 9th, and 23rd, 1867, from which the above Sketch has 
been chiefly compiled and kindly contributed by the author. 

1575—1655. 

HENRY TILSON, BISHOP. 

(For page 91.) 
In the South-east corner of Dewsbury Parish Church there 
is an ancient monument to Bishop Tilson, who was a York- 
ehireman, born near Halifax, about 1575 ; a student of Balliol 
College, Oxford, in 1593; and Vicar of Rochdale, in 1615. 
Becoming chaplain to Lord Strafford, when he was lord- 
lieutenant of Ireland, he took him over there, and made him 
Dean of Christ Church, in Dublin, pro Yice-Chancellor of that 
University, and Bishop of Elphin, in 1639. From Ireland he 
fled, on account of the troubles, in 1641; and his patron 
being beheaded in this year, Tilson retired to his 
family at Soothill Hall, Batley, near Leeds, and officiated 
there, in the baptism of children at least, in what is still 

of death. Other coincidences favoured that idea. Whilst he was in com- 
mand in Scotland, some Scottish lady of position, who was said to be 
possessed of second-sight, had predicted his death in the manner about to be 
realised. Besides this, on the preceding night the admiral's doublet was 
torn and gnawed by rats, on the left side, and just where he was afterwards 
struck by the fatal ball. All this would be considered the most silly super- 
stition now-a-days ; but when witches were burnt and charms were worn, 
it had an influence upon the minds of men of the most pernicious kind. Dean's 
death happening as it had been foretold, seems to have been of sufficient 
importance to cause Monk some uneasiness. The ship's company had heard 
the story, and they were inclined to believe something of evil omen was 
hovering over them. As they had to encounter a strong and audacious 
enemy, any panic arising from a superstitious fear would" undoubtedly be 
fatal. When, therefore, Dean fell, Monk promptly threw his own cloak 
over the corpse, and sternly ordered the faltering seamen to attend to their 
duty. Next morning Monk called together all his flag-officers at sunrise, 
and exhorted them -to keep up the fight with undiminished bravery. That 
they did so, the history of British naval triumphs has shown. 



SEV. FBANCIS ROBERTS, D.D. 559 

called "the Bishop's parlour." Watson, in his History of 
Halifax, says that " he consecrated this room, gave ordina- 
tion privately, and did weekly the offices of a clergyman, 
some of his neighbours being both his hearers and bene- 
factors." For several years, and even after he was 70 years 
of age, he travelled weekly a distance of 12 miles to 
perform duty for less than £16 per annum. He died on 
the 31st of March, 1655, aged 80 years, and was interred 
at the East end of the South aisle of Dewsbury Church, 
where there is a tablet erected to his memory. The Tilsons 
long farmed Soothill Hall, and were there so lately as 1748. 
For a letter from this lively and facetious old man, see 
Scatcherd's History of Morley, &c , p. 260 ; and for further 
information, see Gent. May. for 1806, p. 526 ; Hunter's 
South Yorkshire, ii., 252 ; JBioy. Brit., &c. 

1600—1670. 
EEY. EPWAED EEYNEE, M.A.,* 

(For page 103.) 
An eminent Puritan divine, was born at Morley, near Leeds, 
in 1600, and educated at Cambridge. He became a school- 
master at Market Easen, in Lincolnshire, and was afterwards 
chosen lecturer of a church in Lincoln, and minister of St. 
Peter's, in that city. He also officiated in the cathedral 
during the Usurpation ; but was ejected at the Eestoration, 
and died about 1670. He wrote "Precepts for Christian 
Practice," " Considerations concerning Marriage," " A 
Vindication of Human Learning and Universities," and 
" The Being and Well-being of a Christian, "f 

1609—1675. 

EEY. FEANCIS EOBEETS, D.D., 

(For page 107.) 
Son of Henry Eoberts, was born at Methley, near Leeds, and 
became Eector of that parish. He entered a student in Trin. 
Coll , Oxon., in the beginning of the year 1625, aged 16 years 
or thereabouts, took his B.A. degree, Feb. 12, 1628, and 
completed his M,A , June 26; 1632. He entered into the 

*He is to be distinguished from Kirby Eeyner, a Nonconformist, who was 
born near Wakefield, in Yorkshire, and died at Bristol in 1744. His 
sermons were published by Dr. Lardner, in 8vo. , 1745. 

t For additional particulars see Calamy's Noncon. Memo-rials, ii. , 149 ; 
Wood's Athence Oxon., ; Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica; Darling's Cyclo- 
pedia Bibliographies; Thoresby's Diary ; Rose's Biog. Diet., &c. 



560 BIOGEAPHIA LEODiriTSIS. 

sacred function, and had some little cure bestowed on 
nim. He being always puritannically affected, closed with 
the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil wars, went 
to London, took the covenant, and became minister of 
St. Augustin's there, in the place of a noted loyalist ejected. 
In 1649, Feb. 12, he was presented to the Rectory of Wring- 
ton, in Somersetshire, by his especial patron, xArthur, Lord 
Capell, son of the most loyal and generous Arthur, Lord 
Capell, then lately beheaded, which rectory was then void by 
the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In 
this rectory, our author Roberts, showing himself a zealous 
man of those times, was among several ministers of his 
county (of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph 
Farmer another), constituted an assistant to the Com- 
missioners for the ejectment of such, whom they then [1654] 
called "scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient ministers and 
schoolmasters." After his Majesty's return, he, rather than 
lose his living, and so consequently the comforts of this 
world, did turn about, took the oaths again (whereby he 
denied all those that he had taken in the interval) and con- 
formed himself, without hesitation, to the ceremonies of the 
Church of England, and was nom in ated the first Chaplain by 
his patron, to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex, 
13 Car. II "What preferment he had afterwards conferred 
upon him we know not, only that the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was conferrred on him by the University of Dublin, 
at the time his patron (a favourer of such people; was lord- 
lieutenant of Ireland, in the place of John, Lord Berkeley, 
anno, 1672. Under the said Dr Roberts's name were these 
things following published. Several Sermons, (1) "A Broken 
Spirit, G-od's Sacrifice, Fast Sermon before the House 
of Lords, Dec. 9, 1646, on Psalm li., 17," Lond., 
1647. Preached for the removing of the great 
judgment of rain and water then upon the kingdom. 
(2) "Checquer of G-od's Providence, made up of black and 
white; Funeral Sermon, on Psalm lxviii., 13, Loud., 1657," 
and others which we have not seen. "Believers' Evidences 
for Eternal Life ; collected out of the 1st. Epistle of St. John, 
which is Catholic, &c," Lond., 1649. " CJavis Bibliorum : 
The Key of the Bible ; unlocking the richest Treasury of the 
Holy Scriptures, whereby : 1. The Order. 2. Names, 
3. Times. 4. Penmen. 5. Occasion 6. Scope, and 7. Prin- 
cipal Parts, containing the subject-matter of the Books of 
the Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly 



THE REV. JOHN NALSON, LL.D. 561 

opened, &c," Edin. and Lond., 1649, 8vo., with the author's 
picture before it, aged 40. Afterwards, it was printed in 
quarto and folio, and the fourth edition was published in 
1675. " The Communicant instructed ; or, Practical Directions 
for the worthy Keceiving of the Lord's Supper," Lond., 1651, 
8vo., with the author's picture before it. This was afterwards 
reprinted at least three times. " Mysterium and Medulla 
Bibliorum : The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible ; viz., 
G-od's Covenant with Man in the first Adam before the Fall, 
from the Beginning to the End of the World ; unfolded and 
illustrated in positive aphorisms and their explanations, &c." 
Lond , 1657, in 2 vols., folio. " The True Way to the Tree 
of Life ; or, The Natural Man directed unto Christ," Lond., 
8vo., 1673. What other things he hath written, unless 
"A Synopsis of Theology or Divinity," which is mentioned 
by the author of the catalogue of books in the library at 
Sion Coll., London, we know not, nor anything else of him, 
only that he — dying at Wrington before-mentioned in the 
latter end of 1675 — was, we presume, buried in the church 
there. On the 28th of Jan., in the following year, his im- 
mediate successor, Mr. John Powell, was instituted to the 
rectory of Wrington, then void by the late death of Dr. F. 
Roberts. A portrait of Franciscus Roberts, set. 48, 1656, is 
placed before his "Clavis Bibliorum," &c. — See Granger's 
Biog. Hist, of Eng., vol. iii., p. 331 ; Wood's Athence Ozonienses, 
by Dr. Bliss, vol. iii., p 1054, &c. ; Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica; 
Lowndes' Bibliographers 1 Manual, &c. 

1637—1685, 

THE EEY. JOHN NALSON, LL.D.,* 

(For page 113.) 
A divine and historical writer, son of the Rev. John Nalson, 
M.A. (who died in 1661), minister of Holbeck, in the parish 
of Leeds, was born at Cad-Beeston, near Leeds, and baptized 
(as appears by the parish registers) in Holbeck Chapel, 
Aug. 2nd, 1637. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Thos. 
Sharp, Esq. (For their pedigree, see Wilson's West Riding 
Pedigrees and James's Mist, of Bradford, p. 428, &c.) He 
was educated ai? Cambridge, of which he afterwards became 
LL D. We have discovered very few particulars of his life. 

* Rev. Valentine Nalson, M.A., a divine, son of the above, born at Malton, 
in Yorkshire, in 1681, and educated at St. John's Coll.. Camb. He became 
a prebendary of York ; wrote a volume of Sermons, and died in 1722. See 
Gent's Hist, of York, and Rose's Biog. Diet., &c. 



562 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

He appears to have been zealous in the Royal cause during 
the Usurpation, and after the Restoration he became rector 
of Doddington-cum-March,* in the isle of Ely, where he 
married a Miss Peyton, and had issue. He was also in April, 
1684, collated to a prebendary in that cathedral Wood and 
Bentham say that he died March 24th, 1685-6, aged 48 years, 
and was buried in Ely Cathedral. If Bentham did not copy 
this date from Wood, but took it from the registers at Ely, 
we know not how to reconcile it with a letter from Dr. 
Nalson, printed in Ghitch's Collectanea, and dated 1688, at the 
time the bishops were sent to the Tower by the infatuated 
James II Be this as it may, he published (1) " An impartial 
Collection of the great affairs of State, from the beginning of 
the Scotch Rebellion in 1639, to the murder of King 
Charles I.," 2 vols., folio, Lond., 1682-8. He shewed it in 
MS (afterwards in Halifax Church library) to King 
Charles II , who commanded it to be published, as an anti- 
dote to the Historical Collections of Pushworth, whose preju- 
dices were in favour of the Parliament. They contain, with 
some sharp animadversions, upon Rushworth, many authentic 
and curious circumstances not to be found in other writers 
Nalson's statements are reviewed by Roger Coke, Esq., in 
his " Treatise of the Life of Man," folio, Lond, 1685. 
Besides this historical collection, Dr. Nalson wrote (2) "The 
Countermine ; or, a short, but true discovery of the dangerous 
principles, and secret practices of the dissenting party, 
especially the Presbyterians ; shewing that religion is pre- 
tended, but rebellion intended," &c, 8vo., Lond., 1677. (3) 
" The Common Interest of King and People ; shewing the 
original antiquity and excellency of monarchy compared with 
aristocracy and democracy, and particularly of our English 
monarchy; and that absolute, Papal, and Presbyterian 
popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative, 
property, and liberty," 8yo., Lond., 1678. (4; "A True 
Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice, for the 
Trial of Charles I., as it was read in the House of Commons, 
and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous 
Court," with an introduction ; folio, Lond., 1684. (5) 
"Liberty and Dominion of Conscience, vindicated from the 
usurpations of Opinion," 8vo., Lond., 1677-8. (6) " The 
History of the Crusade ; or the Expedition of the Kings of 

* The above rectory is now held by the Rev. Algernon Peyton — Sir 
Henry Peyton, Bart. , being patron — and it is worth from £7306 to £10,090 
per annum ; which is, we believe, the most valuable rectory in the kingdom. 



THE KEV. THOS. SHARP, A.M. 563 

England, France, and other Foreign Princes to the Conquest 
of Jerusalem;" translated from the French of Lewis Maim- 
bourg, folio, Lond., 1685-6. (A copy in the Leeds library). 
(7) " A Project for Peace," 8vo., Lond., 1678. (8) " His- 
torical Collections," &c, in MS. (formerly in Halifax Church 
library). Several original MS., collections of his were in the 
hands of the late Philip Williams, D.D , president of St. 
John's Coll., Camb. Dr. Nalson, also, at the desire of Lord 
Danby (afterwards Duke of Leeds), wrote "a letter from a 
Jesuit at Paris to his correspondent in London, shewing the 
most effectual way to ruin the Government," 4to., Lond., 
1678. For additional information, see Wood's Athen. Oxon., 
art. Bushworth ; and the Biographical Dictionaries of Chalmers, 
Bose, &c. For his epitaph, see Bentham's Hist, of Ely, 
p 262, &c. For letters from Sir Roger L'Estrange and the 
Bev. John Laughton, M.A., to the Bev. Dr. Nalson, see 
Nichols's Literary Illustrations, vol. iv., pp. 68, 81, and p. 
865 for a copy of his son's epitaph, in latin, at St. Martin's, 
Coney Street, York, where he died in 1722, aged 40 years. 
See also Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii., p. 695 ; Wood's 
Athen. Oxon., by Bliss, vol. iv., p. 283; Watt's Bib. Brit.; 
Lownde's Bibliog. Man. ; Darling's Cyclop. Bibliog., &c. ; 
Wilson's MS. Historical Registers, and West Riding Pedigrees, 
in the Leeds old library. For one of his original letters, see 
Notes and Queries, 2nd. Series, i., 387, 479, &c. 

1634—1693. 

BEY. THOS. SHABP, A.M., 

(For Page 116.) 
An eminent minister at Leeds, was the son of John Sharp, 
who received a gold medal for his services to the Parliament, 
with the figure of General Fairfax on the obverse ; round the 
rim on the reverse "Post hcec Meliora," in the centre 
" Meruisti." The historian of the Nonconformists gives the 
following biographical sketch of this very estimable man : — 
" He was born at Little Horton, near Bradford, of religious 
parents, who seeing his inclination to learning, and hopeful- 
ness for religion, dedicated him to God in the work of the 
ministry, though, as their eldest son, he was likely to have a 
considerable estate. He was cousin to Archbishop Sharp, 
and in 1649 was sent to Clare (Hall) Coll., Camb., and 
placed under the tuition of the celebrated Mr. David Clark- 
son (his mother's brother), who, on quitting the University, 
committed him to the care of Mr. (afterward Archbishop) 



564 BIOGRAPHIA LEODTENSIS. 

Tillotson. He was very studious, and having excellent 
natural abilities and great advantages, lie became a universal 
scholar. Having been episcopally ordained, he first entered 
on public work at Peterborough, from whence he removed 
into his native county about the year 1660. On the death of 
his uncle, Mr. William darkson, minister of Adel, he was 
presented to that living by Mr. Arthington, the patron. He 
enjoyed it but a little while, for, upon the Restoration, Dr. 
Hitch, rector of Ghiiseley, the ejected incumbent, claiming it 
as by law entitled to do. Mr. Sharp was willing to resign, 
though Mr. Arthington was for trying his title to present by 
law ; and the rather, as he foresaw a storm. He had easily 
gotten other preferment, but for the act of uniformity, 
whereby he was silenced. Afterwards he lived privately in 
his father's house, and followed his studies very closely. In 
1672, a year of indulgence, he took out a licence and preached 
in his own house, * whither great numbers resorted ; and after- 
wards more publicly at Morley.f When Mr. Stretton re- 
moved to London, he succeeded him in the congregation at 
Leeds,;]; where he died August 27th, 1693, aged 59. He was 
every way a great man, and yet clothed with humility. He 
was very laborious in his work, full of self-denial, exceedingly 
temperate, mortified to all earthly enjoyments, and of a peace- 
able Catholic spirit. He was excellent in prayer, and a fluent 
preacher ; his sermons were elaborate and accurate, and all 
his performances were exceedingly polite and scholarlike. 
He made a very comfortable exit, as may be seen in the 
printed account of him." He is buried in the chancel of 

* His mother was a Mary Clarkson (sister to the rector of Adel), and he 
married Faith, daughter of the Rev. James Sales, of Pudsey, near Leeds, 
(for a short account of whom see Parson's History of Leeds, ii. 7. He was 
brother to Abraham Sharp, the mathematician, who died in July, 1742. 
And his daughter Elizabeth, was married to Robert Stansfield, of Bradford 
and Leeds, &c. See Leeds Worthies, p. 174, and J "ames* 's History of Brad- 
ford, &c.) 

+ In 1675, he was invited to preach at Morley, where he was very indus- 
trious and highly esteemed. It is recorded of him, that — " He was a 
fluent preacher, a master of words, not so much abounding in rhetorical 
flourishes as in fitting and profitable sentences. His method was peculiar 
to himself, but always suitable to the matter and proper to the end designed, 
not to please the fancy, but to inform the judgment, convince the con- 
science, work upon' the will and affections, and change the heart and life. 
He was very sound and orthodox in doctrine, and trod much in the old 
path, though he was well acquainted with the controversies of the time, and 
very able to oppose error, and defend the truth." 

X "We do not know whether the late chapel at Mill Hill was built under 
his ministry or that of Mr. Stretton, nor whether he was the immediate 
predecessor of Mr. Cappe. 



CASTILION MORRIS, ESQ. 565 

St. John's Church, Leeds. See Thoresby's Due. Leod. p. 
37 ; Whitaker's Loidis, pp. 95, 355 ; Calamy's Non.-Con. 
Memorials, by Palmer, vol. iii. p. 444, &c. ; See also Thoresby's 
Diary, i. ; notice of, &c, 14, 33, 46; Thoresby's regard for 
him, 49, 53, 55, 69, 125, 127, 197, 221 ; other specimens of 
his mode of preaching, 1 1 7, 204 ; his salary, J 70 ; in danger 
of arrest for conducting a private service, 1 7u ; his death, 236 ; 
funeral sermon, 242 ; letter from, in Corresponaenee, i. 67 ; 
proposed publication of a treatise of his, 229 ; Parsons' Hist, 
of Leeds, &c, vol. ii. p. 9, &c. ; Smith's Rambles about Morley, 
1866, p. 147, &c. 

1648—1702. 

CASTILION MOEEIS, ESQ., 

(For Page 117.) 
Son of Colonel John Morris,* Governor of Pontefract Castle, 
1648 ; was brought up to the law, became town-clerk for the 
corporation of Leeds in 1684, where he died Dec. 18th, 1702. 
He was created by Charles, Duke of Somerset, muster-master 
of the train-bands for the East Hiding of Yorkshire, March 
6th, 1684; and he was afterwards author of " The History 
and Surprise of Pontefract Castlef by Colonel John Morris, 

*John Morris, son and heir of Matthias Morris, married Margery, daughter 
of Robert Dawson, D.D., Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacdough in Ireland, 
had issue Eobert, died in 1676 ; John died an infant ; Castilion, &c. 
This John was secretary to the noble and heroic martyr,. Thomas, Earl of 
Strafford, in Ireland ; he was afterwards a colonel and governor of Ponte- 
fract Castle, where he proclaimed King Charles II. , and held the castle 
some months after King Charles I. was murdered in spite of the arch-tyrants, 
Oliver and his abominable crew, but at last was obliged to surrender ; he 
underwent an over-bearing trial at ¥ork, where he was executed 23rd Aug., 
1649, aged 29 years. See an account of his trial, &c, in the " History of 
Pontefract Castle," &c, by his son Castilion, in MSS. in Thoresby's Museum. 

t On the 3rd of June, 1648, the governor of Pontefract Castle, having given 
orders for some beds and provisions out of the country, Colonel Morris (or 
Morice), commissioned by G-eneral Langdale, and accompanied by nine 
Royalist officers, disguised like peasants, having pistols, &c, concealed 
beneath their clothes, appeared at the castle gate, with carts laden with beds, 
provisions, &c. The draw-bridge was let down, and the beds, &c, delivered 
to the. main guard ; money was then given to the soldiers to fetch some ale, 
in whose absence, Morris and his party attacked and mastered the main 
guard, making way for their confederates to enter ; they made the deputy- 
governor prisoner, and soon made themselves masters of the castle, after 
which they were joined by 30 horse and 500 foot, part of the King's shattered 
troops, and Sir John Digby was made governor. In the month of October, 
the third seige of Pontefract Castle commenced, Oliver Cromwell undertook 
to superintend the _ operations in person, and remained a month before the 
fortress without being able to make any impression on its massy walls. He 
then gave the command to General Lambert, who ultimately succeeded in 
reducing it to submission ; but not before the garrison had been reduced 
from 600 men to 100, and some of them unfit for duty. On the 25th of 



566 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

governor of the Baid castle for King Charles I., anno 1648, 
with the trial of the said Colonel Morris and Cornet Blaek- 
burne, with their behaviour and speeches at their execution at 
York, 23rd August, 1649," in MSS. afterwards in the hands 
of his daughter, Mrs. Sharpe, of Leeds, (taken 1783), who 
said that her father was born in Pontefract Castle, which 
occasioned his christian name, Castilion. He was twice 
married, first to Annabella, daughter of Wm. Ashend en, of 
Leeds, gentleman, and sister of Dr. Moses Ashenden, an eminent 
physician at York, by her he had issue, John Morris, of 
Leeds, &c, she died in 1677. His second wife was Mary, 
daughter of Greo. Jackson, merchant, of Leeds, and sister of 
Robert Jackson, Esq., envoy for Queen Anne, at the court of 
Sweden, in 1710, by her also he had issue. See Thoresby's 
Due. Lead., p. 71, &c. ; Wilson's Historical Registers, in Leeds 
library; Thoresby's Diary, vol. 1, p. 151; intended a history 
of Pontefract Castle, &c. p. 421, &c. 

1621—1705.* 
EEY. CHRISTOPHER NESSE, A.M., 

' (For Page 120.) 

Lecturer at the Leeds Parish Church, was the son of Thomas 
Nesse, of North Cave, in the East Riding, was born December 
26th, 1621, and at the age of sixteen entered St John's 
Coll., Camb., where he continued seven years. After 

March, 1649, the garrison surrendered by capitulation, having first pro- 
claimed Charles II. , and done all that a brave garrison of men could do. 
With the surrender of this fortress, concludes the annals of the civil wars in 
England. At the demolition of Pontefract Castle, in 1649, was found a 
very ancient MS. on the subject of Freemasonry, which in the year 1738, 
was presented to one of the lodges in the city of York, by Mr. Drake, the 
celebrated antiquary. See Mayhall's Annals of Leeds, and the Histories of 
Pontefract, by Gent, Boothroyd, Pox, &c. For a long account how 
Pontefract Castle was taken, &c. , by Captain Thomas Paulden, 1702 ; and 
for the trial and examination of John Morris, governor of Pontefract Castle, 
1649, see Lord Somers's Miscell. Tracts, 2nd edition, 1812, vol. vii. pp. 3 — 15 ; 
Hunter's South Yorkshire, ii. , 98, &c. 

* — 1705 — Mr. Robert Nesse, Sergeant- at-mace for the Corporation of 
Leeds, in Yorkshire, paid £11 13s. 4d. for his loyalty to King Charles I. 
He was author of — 1. "Observations concerning the late civil wars in 
England," MS., formerly in Thoresby's Museum. 2. " Notes concerning 
the Corporation of Leeds ; the Charters, Election of Aldermen, Mayors, &c," 
MS. in Thoresby's Museum. — See Wilson's Historical Registers. The ages 
of the Rev. Christopher Nesse, formerly lecturer of the Leeds Parish Church, 
Mr. Robert Nesse, sergeant-at-mace to the mayors of Leeds, who died about 
the same time (1705), with their two sisters, amounted to 300 years and 
upwards. — See also letter in Thoresby's Diary, i. 130. 

— 1707 — Rev. Christopher Wilkinson, minister of Armley, in the parish 
of Leedes, from 1690 to 1707. He went into Spain in 1705, and the next year 



REV. CHRISTOPHER NEBSE, A.M. 567 

preaching for some time at Cliff© Chapel (under the care of 
his uncle, then vicar of North Cave), and also in Holderness, 
he removed to Beverley, where he taught a school, and only 
preached occasionally. He was afterwards settled at Cotting- 
ham upon the resignation of Dr. Winter, and his labours in 
that place were crowned with abundant success. From 1656 
to 1660 he preached in the old church at Leeds, as curate to 
Mr. Styles (see p. 97), and afterwards to Dr. Lake, (see p. 
113), prior to his translation to the See of Chichester. Dr. 
Lake, however, and Mr. Nesse were often at variance, their 
sentiments were very dissimilar, and the discourse in 
the afternoon was generally diametrically opposed to that of 
the morning. When Bartholomew's day arrived, 1662, and 
the Act of Uniformity closed the pulpit against Mr. Nesse, he 
preached in private ; and after the promulgation of the Eive 
Mile Act, he repaired first to Clayton, and afterwards to 
Morley.* He seems to have been thought of so much con- 
sequence, and his influence to have been so extensive, that the 
Duke of Buckingham attempted by flattery to gain him over 
to the cause of Conformity. Calamy says of him : — " When 
the times grew more favourable, he had a house of his own. 
at Hunslet, where he instructed youth, and preached in 
private till 1672, when the Main Biding House being con- 
verted into a Meeting-house, he there preached publicly to a 
numerous auditory. Having been three times excommuni- 
cated, upon the fourth there was issued out a writ for his 
apprehension, to avoid which he removed to London in 1675, 
and preached to a private congregation. He died there 
December 26th, 1705, aged 84, and was buried in Bunhill 
Fields." Mr. Nesse was a voluminous and diligent writer, 

to the West Indies, and died in Virginia. He was author of " a Voyage to 
Spain and the West Indies," MS. , in Thoresby's Museum. By his care and 
cost, together with the contributions of several charitable persons at Leeds, 
a very good brick house was erected, in 1704, for the successive curates of 
Armley. — See Wilson's Hist. Beg., Whitaker's Loidis, &c. 

* At the time Mr. Nesse came to Morley, in 1665, the perseuiition of the 
Non-Conformist was at its height, and, as he left about the time the first 
indulgences were granted in 1672, it is probable that his preaching here 
was in private, and not in public at the chapel, except, perhaps, on some few 
occasions, The old chapel was at this time in the hands of the Anglican 
Church, so that any preaching there by a Non- Conformist must have been 
by permission of the vicar of Batley, which was sometimes granted. Re- 
specting this eminent and useful minister, we extract the following from a 
copy of the TopclifFe register: — "Christopher, son of Christopher Nesse, 
Baptised July 9th, 1661. Elizabeth, daughter of Bro. Nesse, born Sept. 
27th 1671, baptised 17th October," &c. See Smith's Rambles about Morley, 
1866, p. 145, &c. 



568 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEXSIS. 

and his theology was of the supralapsarian school.* His 
portrait, set. 56, 1678, is prefixed to his works. — See Calaray's 
Ison-Conformists* Memorials, by Palmer, vol. iii., p. 441, &c ; 
Whitaker's Loidis and Elmete ; Parsons' Hist, of Leeds, vol. ii., 
p. 5, &c. .; Granger's Biog. Hist, of Engd., vol. v. p. 78 ; and 
Noble's Continuation, vol. ii. p. 148, &c. 

1631—1708. 
EEV. EDMUND HICKEKINGILL. 

. (For Page 121.) 

We prefer that this gentleman should give his own Auto- 
biography in his own words, f as no man is so fit to tell his 
own commentaries as himself, and as few men have met with 
more diverting occurrences, &c. "I was born Sept. 17th., 
1631, and was the third son of Mr. Edmund Hickeringill, of 
Aberford, in Yorkshire, by Frances (his second wife), the 
daughter of Dr. Edmund Troutbeck, of Hope Hall, in 
Bramham, in the County of York, and I was admitted a 
pensioner in St. John's Coll. Camb., anno. 1646, and chosen 
to be Fellow of Gonville and Caius Coll. Camb., anno. 1650 ; 
but Mars being lord of my ascendant, which gave me a very 
strong and robust constitution, Mercury also being well 
dignified, I accepted at first a commission to be a lieutenant 
in Colonel Daniels' regiment in Scotland, under General Monk, 
Governor of Scotland, and was afterwards Governor of 
Mackloor Castle, situate on the skirts of the Highlands ; 

* The chief of his works, which are numerous, are i. , his " Complete History 
and Mystery of the Old and New Testaments, logically discussed and tbeo- 
logicalty improved," 4 vols, folio, Lond., 1690 — 96, a valuable and rare 
book. To this work Matthew Henry was indebted in writing his 
Commentary. Vol. 1, contains The Creation to the Wanderings in the 
Wilderness. Vol. 2, Joshua to the birth of Solomon. Vol. 3, Birth of 
Solomon to the birth of Christ. Indexes. Vol. 4, Beginning at the birth 
of Christ, and ending at the last of the Revelation. Index to vol. 4. — ii. "A 
distinct discourse and discovery of the person and period of A.nti-Christ, as 
to his — rise, reign, and ruin," sm. 8vo., Lond., 1679. iii. "An Antidote 
against Arminianism," 12mo., Lond., 1700. iv. " Another, fifth edition, 
revised, with notes, by J. A. Jones," 18mo. , 1836. Other Works : The 
Crown and Glory of a Christian, 12mo.. 1676. The Christian's Walk and 
Work on Earth until he comes to Heaven, 8vo., 1677. A Protestant Anti- 
dote against the Poison of Popery, 8vo. , 1679. The Crystal Mirror, shewing 
the treachery of the Heart, 8vo., 1679. A Church History, 8vo., 1681, &c. 
John Dunton, the bookseller, tells us (in his hie), that he wrote for him 
" The life of Pope Innocent XI," of which the whole impression sold off in a 
fortDight. His style is but very indifferent. — See Granger's Biog. Hist, oi 
England: Watt's Bibliotheca Britanniea; Lowndes' Bibliographers' Manual ; 
Larling's Cyclopaedia Bibliographical &c. 

f Written originally for Ralph Thoresby, of Leeds. 



REV. EDMUND HICKERINGILL. 569 

but after King Charles's forces under General Middleton 
were quite subdued (in 1654 — See "Diary of Burton" vol. ii., 
p. 76, note f), and a general quiet in England and 
Scotland, I (minding to understand foreign discipline in; 
foreign countries,) accepted a commission for captain in 
Major- General Fleetwood's regiment (then Swedish Am- 
bassador to Oliver Cromwell), and marrying a Swedish 
woman, was a naturalized Swede ; under whose command I 
marched my company, consisting of 125 private soldiers, 
besides officers, which I raised in and about Aberford, where 
I was born, and parts adjacent, in fourteen days' time, beating 
up my drums at York, Halifax, Leeds, &c, of which parish 
of Leeds, Mr. Walker (my lieutenant) was a native, and 
shipping my men at Hull, in Yorkshire, we landed at 
Hamburgh in four days' time, the King of Sweden's resident 
in Hamburg furnishing us with clothes, money, and arms. 
Thence I was commanded to march to Stodt, on the south of 
the river Elbe ; and soon after I was made Governor of 
Buckstaho, a Swedish garrison in Bremen, a territory in 
Germany, anciently belonging to the Kings of Sweden. 
When King Carolus Gustavus rendezvoused all his forces at 
Germany, at Kiel (a seaport upon the Baltic ocean, and 
metropolis of Holstein), and amongst the rest, my company 
(that was equal in number with the whole regiment of the 
Duke of Lunenberg, with whom we were embodied) ; and, 
taking shipping at Kiel, the whole army landed the same 
day in Zealand, at a Danish port, above twenty leagues from 
the chief city thereof, Copenhagen, which with the second 
city of Zealand, Elsinore, we besieged at one and the same 
time, taking Elsinore, which fell to my lot, amongst others, 
at the first summons; but the castle (called Cronenburg 
Castle, a most impregnable fort, three parts whereof is 
washed with the Baltic ocean), held out some time ; but was 
at length surrendered upon articles;' but the Governor was 
hanged as soon as he came to his King of Denmark, for a 
traitor, the castle being subdued with golden pistols rather 
than brass cannons. But this strong and important fort 
(for it commands that small and narrow entrance into the 
Sound, for which cause all ships, of what nation soever, 
there pay tribute), was no sooner in possession of the Swedes, 
but the Dutch came to relieve Copenhagen with forty stout 
men-of-war, (the Swedish fleet then hovering over Copenhagen, 
to hinder all relief by sea, (and the command of one of the 
said Swedes' men-of-war (called the North Sea) was given to 



570 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

me. Admiral Falconbridge was Admiral of tlie Dutch, fleet, 
and "Wittee de Witt was his Vice- Admiral, whose ship with 
five more the Swedes took. But De "Witt's ship was so 
shattered, and he so mortally wounded, that he died, and 
the ship was sunk by the Swedes in four fathom water. My 
skill in the theory of navigation, together with my resolute 
soldiers, (for half of them had served with me in Scotland 
under General Monk), gave us the command of that man- 
of-war. But when the peace was concluded betwixt the 
two northern crowns, I had but eighteen men left alive of 
my one hundred and twenty-five. 

But this gave me the practical part of navigation, and 

made me an absolute tarpaulin. Afterwards I grew a 

more accomplished mariner, by sailing to Portugal, the 

Canaries, Surinam ; Barbadoes, St. Christopher's, Hispaniola, 

and Jamaica ; of which island Colonel Doyley, was then 

Governor, and put into that post by the Cromwells. He for the 

benefit of all mariners that touch upon that coast, surrounded 

the island with five hundred boats, to sound the depth of the 

sea round that isle (an useful work, but what the Spaniards 

never had leisure or will to attempt), which Governor, being 

my intimate friend, sent his first letters to King Charles the 

Second, after his restoration, anno. 1660, by me, and also the 

map of the said island of Jamaica and soundings ; which is 

printed in my book, called "Jamaica described," which was 

published by the command of King Charles the Second, and to 

him by me dedicated : in requital whereof that king made 

me Secretary of State for the island of Jamaica, under the 

Right Hon. the Earl of Windsor, the first Governor that 

King Charles the Second sent to Jamaica ; in which post I 

continued a whole year; for so long it was (after his and 

mine entrance upon that employment) before a fleet could be 

equipped, in that low ebb of the Exchequer, that. had many 

vents in those days, and many hungry and long fasting 

expectations to glut ; and before the Governor's instructions 

were perfected by me, who drew them all; not but 

that the King was willing to grant him any advantage and 

privilege that he could reasonably demand; but the Earl 

knew not what to demand without my assistance, who 

had been (as also had been many other mariners) upon the 

place ; but no other mariner had had that liberal education 

in an academy (or University), where I kept my travelling 

fellowship some years after I was a soldier and mariner. 

During a whole year's waiting in this employment (but not 



EEV. EDMUND HICKERINGILL. 571 

without a very good stipend), I became intimately acquainted 
with the famous Dr. Sanderson, then Bishop of Lincoln, who 
not only persuaded me to leave off rambling the world, but 
also persuaded me into holy orders (for which he deemed me 
very capable), and to serve God and the Church of England, 
especially then, when so many Nonconformists deserted, at 
that fatal Bartholomew-day, anno. 1662, which gave birth to 
so grand a nonconformity, for which no town was more 
notorious than Colchester, which was the only cause why I 
was sent thither by concert betwixt the Eight Reverend 
Fathers in Grod, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of London, and the 
said Lord Bishop of Lincoln : that there first breaking the 
ice, I might and must necessarily break my shins, as Bishop 
Sheldon (in pleasant and amicable drollery) then told me, 
saying it was but a just penance for my youthful pranks, in 
being a soldier and seaman under the two great Hectors of 
Europe, Oliver Cromwell and Carolus Gustavus, King of 
Sweden. And some that know Colchester very well, have 
wondered that I should continue forty years a minister in 
Colchester, which none else ever did, but were (much sooner) 
either starved or stormed out of that notorious as well as 
populous town : and others, also (that know not my temper), 
have admired that the devil (of avarice and ambition) should 
never tempt me to endeavour to climb to the pinnacles of the 
temple ; but as I came not into the priest's office that I might 
get a piece of bread, but to enjoy (what I value above any- 
thing in this world) a happy retirement from the noise and 
gaudy turmoil of the world, of which I have had a sufficient 
surfeit ; having, notwithstanding, a competent temporal 
estate of inheritance of £250 or £300 per annum, enough 
for my seven children (which are all men and women grown, 
and already well provided for) if they be good, and too 
much if they prove bad, of which I have hitherto had no 
cause of jealousy.* 

* Some of the books by me composed are: — 1. "A Description of 
Jamaica." 2. "Distressed Innocence ;" a Sermou (my first), preached Jan. 
30th, 1662, in 8vo., bound; and reprinted without my privity, in 4to., 
without any addition, except in the title page, viz., " Which may serve for 
an Answer to Mr. Stevens' Sermon, preached before the House of Commons, 
Jan. 30th, 1700." 3. " Gregory Father Greybeard, with his vizard off, in 
answer to Mr. Marvell's Rehearsal Transposed," in 8vo. , bound. 4. " Curse 
ye Meroz ; " a Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of 
London. Nine Editions, being reprinted nine times in fourteen davs, in 4to. , 
1680. 5. '-The Naked Truth ;" the second part, folio, 168L 6 " The Vin- 
dication of Naked Truth," folio. , 1681. 7. " The Black Nonconformist ;" or, 
the third part of Naked Truth, folio, 1681. 8. " The famous Trial of Mr. 



572 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

His works were published at Oxford, 1716, in 3 vols., 8vo. 
His portrait, set. 76, 1706, was engraved by J. Nutting, 
from a painting by S. Tull ; another was altered from 
Sacheverel's ; see Noble's Continuation, vol. ii., p. 136, &c. 
For further information, see Thoresby'sI>/«ry, vol. i., p. 250 ; 
Thoresby's Correspondence, vol i., p. 447 ; vol. ii., p. 8, &c. 
Barling's Cyclopedia Bibliographica ; Lowndes' Bibliographer's 
Manual, &c. 

1651—1710. 

EEY. THOS. WHITAKEE, 

(For Page 125.) 
Minister of Call Lane Chapel,* in Leeds, for 34 years, who 
died in November, 1710, and was buried in the Leeds Parish 
Church, and to whose memory is the following inscription on a 
braes plate in front of the communion rails : — 

"M.S. 
THOM^ WHITAKERI, 
Qui honesta inter Whitakeros Helii, Lancastriensis, 
Familia natus an. MDCLI, bonis in Universitate 
Edinburgenia literis imbutus. 
Ingenio facili et facundo 
Judicio subtili et limato, 
Industria indef essa et assidua, 
DoctrinaB claritate 
Vitas sanctimonilt, 
Morum gravitate et modestia 
Insignis et praeclarus. 
Pacis inter omnes studiosus, 
Liberalitatis Eautor benignns, 
Theologus consummatus, 
Concionator compositus, copiosns ; 
Vitae tandem oneris pertsesus, 
Hie quicquid mortale fuit deposuit, et 
Ad beatorum sedes animus anhelans ascendit, 
Nov. 10, MDCCX." 

HickeringiU," folio, 1681. 9. " The Test ;" or, Trial of the Goodness or 
value of Spiritual Courts, folio, 1683. 10. " The Man-Catcher;" a Sermon 
on Jer. v., 26, 4to., 1682. 11. " The Character of a Sham-plotter, or Man- 
catcher," folio, 1683. 12. "The Mushroom;" a Satire, folio, 1682. 13. 
"The History of Whiggism," in folio, 1683. 14. "The Trimmer," folio, 
1683. 15. "A Speech without-doors, concerning Penal Laws and Tests, 
Bigotism, &c, which is most of it enacted by Parliament," 1689. 16. " The 
Lay-Clergy, or Lay-Elder;" discussing whether it be lawful for persons 
in holy orders to Exercise Temporal Offices, Honours, Jurisdictions, and 
Authorities, in 4to. , 1695. 17. " The Ceremony-Monger," folio, 1689. Re- 
published in 8vo. : " The Ceremony-Monger, his character, in ten chapters, 
of the nature of a libel, and Scandalum Magnatum" And in the conclusion, 
hinting at some mathematical untruths ; and what Bishops were, are, and 
should be. 18. "The Divine Captain; or, the Cood old Cause," in 4to., 
1692. By the late E. HickeringiU, Rector of All Saints, in Colchester, 
where he died in 1708. 

* Of this chapel Thoresby says, " In the Call Lane, betwixt the back gates 



REV. THOMAS WHITAKER. 573 

Mr. Timothy Jollie, who, in October 1711, wrote a short 
Memories Sacrum of Mr. Thomas Whitaker, says : — "His 
descent was from an ancient family of the Whitakers,* a 
branch of which was the famons Dr. Wm. Whitaker, whom 
his adversary, Bellarmine, styled aKaOokiK&v Doctissimus ; of 
whom another said, 'that never man saw him without 
reverence, or heard him without wonder.' His immediate 
parent was Dr. Robert Whitaker, an eminent physician, who 
dwelt at Hely, near Burnley, in Lancashire. Here he was 
born in the year 1651. Part of his school learning he had 
under his worthy father, whose eminency that way many have 
admired. His further improvements he had from the schools 
at Burnley, Blackburn, and Manchester, at which he dis- 
tinguished himself by his diligence and proficiency. His early 
age gave the presage of after- eminency both in religion and 
learning. He knew the Scriptures from his childhood, which 
Athanasius calls the Food of the Soul, and this did not a little 
conduce to render him mighty in the Scriptures He had an 
early aversion to vain company and sinful pastimes, which 
kept him from the paths of the Destroyer. His book was his 
delight, his business, and his recreation. His companions 

of the quondam chantry and Mr. Harrison's garden, those of the Congrega- 
tional persuasion built a stately chapel or meeting-house, with a turret upon 
the leaded roof, anno 1691. The reverend and pious Mr. Thos. Whitaker 
was their pastor, descended from the deservedly-famous Dr. Wm. Whitaker, 
of whom, and Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker, one of the Assembly of Divines at 
Westminster, distinct Memoirs are to be inserted in the years of their deaths." 
The Congregation was originally gathered by Mr. Christopher Nesse (one of 
the ejected ministers) in 1672, and, on his removal to London in 1675, 
Mr. Whitaker was called to succeed him. The sentiments of the Congrega- 
tion at Call Lane are now generally supposed to be of the Baptist persuasion. 
* The Rev. Thomas Whitaker, of Leeds, was of the same family as the 
Rev. Thos. D. Whitaker ; for the writer of this paper has an impression of a 
seal of the present Vicar of Whalley, who is a son of the late Rev. T. D. 
Whitaker, containing the arms of the family, and which impression has 
been compared with the seal attached to the will of Mr. Thos. Whitaker's 
father, which is amongst the records at Chester ; and the impression has 
been certified by the Registrar to the Probate Court at Chester, as the same 
in insignia and device as those on the seal attached to the will. On the 
breast-plate, above referred to, are the Whitakers' arms, viz., sable, three 
mascles, argent. It may be mentioned, that as well as Mr. Whitaker's 
grandfather being of the same family of Whitakers as the Holme family, 
Mr. Whitaker's grandmother was a Miss Whitaker, of Holme. According 
to the Rev. T. D. Whitaker, in 1816, he was not descended from Dr. Wm. 
Whitaker, but from a collateral branch of the family, which expired about 
forty years ago, at Healey, near Burnley. His father was a Puritan physi- 
cian, frequently mentioned by Calamy. Much of the above information has 
been kindly contributed by Mr. A. W. Roberts, solicitor, of Rochdale. See 
also Thoresby's Due. Leod. , Whitaker's Loidis, &c. For long biographical 
sketches of Wm. and Jeremiah Whitaker, see Middletons Biographia 
Evaugelica, Brook's Lives of the Puritans, Lupton's Wakefield Worthies, &c. 



574 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

. were only they that feared the Lord ; his aim was either to 
get good or do good with all he conversed with. His love to 
the ordinances of Christ was singular, especially to the most 
awakening lively preaching ; this had a more peculiar relish 
with him, which/he discovered by his great pains to attend it 
in his younger days." 

In 1675, he took the pastoral charge of Call Lane Chapel, 
which was originally built in 1676, and rebuilt in 1691. " He 
was celebrated for extensive learning, and powerful abilities, 
for fervent piety, and exemplary excellence of character. His 
labours were great, and they were honoured with great 
success." He was three times married : his first wife died 
whilst he was a prisoner at York,* leaving him no child. He 
had one daughter by his second wife ; and by his third, Mercy, 
daughter of Mr. Jno. Dickinson and his wife Grace, relict of 
Mr. Peter Jackson, of Leeds, he had two sons, William and 
Thomas "Whitaker. When the days drew near that he must 
die, and a complication of distempers gave him the sentence 
of death in himself, he shewed an easy resignation to the will 
of Heaven, often saying, "I'm in the hands of a gracious 
God." He had a tender concern for his flock, and proved it 
by recommending to them unity and peace, with an adherence 
to the Faith, that was once delivered to the Saints. When he 
took leave of his sons, after charging them to serve the Lord 
God of their father, he left them to the disposal of Providence 
in the choice of their calling ; but with this character upon 
the ministry, — "That though it had cost him so dear, yet he 
had served a good Master, and was never ashamed or weary 
of his work." Three of this family in succession were 
ministers of Call Lane, and all entitled, in different degrees, 
to the praise bestowed in this epitaph on the first. — For 
additional particulars, see Thoresby's Diary, Kev. Thos. 
Whitaker, the elder, a Nonconformist minister at Leeds, 
vol i. p. 132; death of his wife, p. 211 ; his imprisonment, 
vol. ii. p. 424. Eev. Thos. Whitaker, the younger, a Non- 
conformist minister at Leeds, vol. i. p. 133, &c. Nichols's 
Lit. Must., p. 878; Darling's Cyclopcedia BibUographica ; 
Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, &c. 

* This Mr. Thos. Whitaker found, as he said to his sons, when he took 
leave of them on his dying bed, that his work of the ministry had cost him 
dear ; for, during those troublesome times he had suffered greatly. In Jan. , 
1684, he was committed to York Castle, where he was kept a prisoner (along 
with his intimate friend, Mr. Oliver Heywood) for the space of eighteen 
months ; and his sufferings were aggravated by the death of his wife while 
he was in prison. ■ 



KEV. MILES GALE, M.A. 575 

1647.— 1720. 
THE EEY. MILES GALE, M.A., 

(For Page 128.) 
"Was born June 19th, 1647, at Farnley Hall, near Leeds; 
educated at Trinity Coll., Carnb., and was Eector of Keighley, 
from 1680 to 1720. He was the son of Mr. John Gale, a 
descendant of the Gales of Scruton and Masham, who had 
been in the Low Country wars under Count Mansfield, and 
who in the time of James I., when Colonel Sir Thomas Danby 
was serving against the Scots, occupied the post of Captain, 
but afterwards refusing a commission from Cromwell, he 
retired to Earnley Hall, near Leeds, where he resided many 
years. His elder brother's son was the learned Dr. Thomas 
Gale, Dean of York, father of the distinguished Eoger and 
Samuel Gale, (see the pedigree of the family in Thoresby's 
Dug. Leod., pp. 203, 583, and Wilson's Pedigrees of the York- 
shire Gentry, vol. iii., p. 151, &o.) Miles, the Eector of 
Keighley, "of whose ingenious workmanship," says Thoresby, 
"I have a notable specimen amongst the curiosities of this 
Museum," married Margaret, daughter of Christopher Stone, 
D.D., Chancellor of York. Christopher, their eldest son, 
who married Sarah, relict of Harvey, Governor of North 
Carolina, was Attorney- General and Judge of the Admiralty, 
in that province, 1712; and in 1721 was, as we find in the 
Diary and Correspondence of the above-named author, Chief- 
Justice of Providence and all the Bahama Islands. Mr. Gale 
was found dead in bed on the 2nd or 3rd of Jan., 1720-1, 
in his 74th year. On the 11th of the following Eebruary, 
we find the Leeds Antiquary visited again by Judge Gale 
and Captain Danby, an officer in Queen Anne's army, 
fo see the collections. Mr. Gale, who appears to have 
been more noted for his ingenuity and general activity 
than for his abilities as an antiquary, was the steady 
friend and confidant of Mr. Gyles, the eminent glass-painter, 
of York. His monument, formerly in Keighley church, and 
luckily copied by Dr. Whitaker, (and also by Gent, in his 
History of Ripon. &o.,) was with some others, taken away in 
1805, when the church was rebuilt, and never found its way 
back ; and now when there is ample room for its reception, it 
is strangely and unaccountably lost. Thomas, another of Mr. 
Gale's sons, was Eector of Linton, in Craven, and died in 
1750. * 

* The Appended list of the several articles contributed by Mr. G-ale to 
Thoresby's museum affords at least sufficient evidence of the mental activity 



576 BIOGKAPHIA LEODIEtfSIS. 

His mother was Joanna, daughter of Miles Dodson, Esq., 
of Kirkby (Oreblawyers) Overblow. For their pedigree, &c, 
see Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iv., pp. 536-555, and vol. 
viii., p. 506; and Literary Illustrations, vol. iv., pp. 489-90; 
Whitaker's History of Craven, p. 146, &c. 

-1721.* 
THE KEV. G-EOKGE PLAXTON, M.A., 

(For Page 129.) 

Instituted Rector of Berwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in Sept., 
1703, was author of — i. "Pedigrees of the Chief Families in 
Yorkshire," in a large folio MS. ii. "The Yorkshire Elec- 
tion Horse Races, a Poem, and several other Satirical Poems," 
MS. iii. Natural Observations in the parishes of Kinardsey 
and Derrington, in Shropshire, in the Philosoph. Trans., No. 
310, &c. Thoresby informs us, that "what relates to the 
Church and parish of Berwick will be more accurately 
described by the Rev. and ingenious Mr. Geo. Plaxton, 
who was then Rector, and what is too rare, resident there, 
being the first that has been so of many ages; and as the 
parochians are happy in his preaching and prayers on the 
week-days, and monthly Communions, to which ancient 
custom he has happily reduced them; so the republic of 
letters will be advanced by his designed history." He gave 

and mechanical skill of the contributor : — " Memoirs of the family of Gale, 
particularly of the learned Dr. Thomas G-ale, Dean of York, and Christopher 
Gale, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney-General in North Carolina, 1703. A 
description of the parish of Keighley, written by the Rev. Miles Gale, Rector 
there, whose autograph and present it is. A reel, with silk and silver twist 
wound upon it, after it was enclosed in a small bottle ; the cork is also fas- 
tened on the inside with three wood pins. He also sent me a Hexapode, 
of six different pieces, fastened without glue or nails, yet not now to be 
severed, with the best turned tobacco-stopper, all of his own workmanship. 
He likewise contributed the Pyrites from Camel Cross, upon the highest 
hill between the East and West Seas, as is evident from the springs running 
thence into both of them. This is called Mundick by some, but it is really 
Pyrites in the opinion of that great naturalist, Dr. Lister." For the credit 
of Leeds and honour of the county, it is to be hoped that his memoirs of 
the family of Gale, survived the wreck of Thoresby's Museum, where they 
had been confidently deposited, as in a secure place, for the future use of 
the biographer. See Thoresby's Diary, vol. i., p. 384; Wilson's Historical 
Register, MS. in Leeds Old Library ; Holmes's History of Keighley, p. 181 ; 
Parsons' History of Leeds, vol. ii., p. 451 ; &c, &c. 

*— 1735. (For p. 143. )— John Moore, Esq. , a native of Leeds, in Yorkshire, 
was author of a "Map, with a description of the Holy-Land," then con- 
sidered the best extant. "Columbarium, or the Pigeon-house; being 
an Introduction to a Natural History of Tame Pigeons," 8vo. 8s., London, 
1735. See Wilson's Hist. Registers : Lowndes's Bibliog. Manual, &c. ; 



JOHN ASGILL, ESQ., M.P. 577 

several coins, &c, to Thoresby's museum. According to Dr. 
Whitaker, Mr. Plaxton falling into pecuniary difficulties, 
withdrew into the South of England, where he died. See 
Wilson's Mist. Reg. ; Thoresby's Due. Leod. ; Whitaker' s 
Loidis; Thoresby's Dairy, presented to Rectory of Berwick, 
vol. i., p. 434; visited by Thoresby, p. 465; his scheme for 
a benefit fund, ii., p. 89 ; his mother, p. 127 ; peruses the sheets 
of the Ducatus, p. 171; his labours at Berwick, p. 186; infirm, 
p 195; his mother, p. 242; Thoresby's Correspondence, letters 
from, vol. ii., pp. 64, 82, 86, 87, 122, 126, 133, 134, 143, 
145, 196, 206, 338, &c. 

1655—1738. 
JOHN ASGILL, ESQ., M.P.,* 

(For Page 146.) 

A political and miscellaneous writer, living at the close of the 
seventeenth, and commencement of the eighteenth centuries, 
was brought up to the law, and became a member of the 
society of Lincoln's Inn, where he recommended himself by 
his talents to the notice of Mr. Eyre, an eminent lawyer, and 
afterwards one of the judges of the Court of King's Bench, 
Who assisted him in his studies. Asgill attained some emi- 
nence in his profession early in the reign of William III., 
when he began to display his humour and talent as a writer 
of pamphlets. Among the earliest works published by him 
were — i. a pamphlet entitled, "Several Assertions proved, in 
order to create another species of Money than Gold or Silver," 
published in 1696, which proposes to employ securities on 
lands as a new circulating medium; and, ii. "An Essay on 
a Registry for Titles of Lands," which is said to have ap- 
peared first in 1688. A second edition was published in 1701, 
and the pamphlet was also reprinted in the second volume of 
the "Collection of State Tracts published during the reign of 
King William IH." p. 693. Though written in a humorous 

Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii, p. 65, &c. Probably the 
John Moore who took Deacon's orders in 1744, Curate of Head- 
ingley, who died December 10th, 1764, having previously married Ann, 
daughter of Thomas Sawer, Esq. (Mayor of Leeds), and Dorothy, 
(daughter of Cyril Arthington, Esq.,) and had issue Thomas, Major of 
Carbineers, who died unmarried, in 1787, and Ann Moore, married in June, 
1781, to Sir James Graham, Bart., of Kirkstall, father of the present Sir 
Sandford Graham, Bart. 

* Asgill, John, born about 1658, died 1738 ; according to Bose's Biog. 
Diet. , is said in some manuscript biographical collections in the Old Library 
at Leeds to have been born in that town. See Wilson's Hist. Beg. , &c. 



578 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

style, the Biographia Britannica observes that this pamphlet 
"must be allowed to be as sensible a piece as was perhaps 
ever written on that important subject." Among other argu- 
ments in favour of his scheme, he appears to consider that it 
would be beneficial by "reducing the practice of the law," 
at any rate so far as the less honourable class of practitioners 
are concerned. The same volume of the " Collection of 
State Tracts" contains, at p. 704, an answer to certain objec- 
tions brought against the proposed registry, which appears, 
by its style, to be by Asgill, though it does not bear his 
name. 

An Act of Parliament being passed in the year 1699 for 
the resumption of forfeited estates in Ireland, Commissioners 
were appointed to settle claims, and as Asgill had become 
embarrassed in his circumstances, and had also become in- 
volved in diificulties as the executor of his eccentric friend Dr. 
Barebone, the builder of the new square in Lincoln's Inn, he 
determined to go to Ireland, where his merit, and the favour 
of the Commissioners procured him very extensive and lucra- 
tive practice, the whole country being engaged in law-suits, 
in the most important of which he was retained. He thus 
acquired a considerable fortune, with which he purchased a 
large estate in Ireland, and thereby acquired so much influ- 
ence, that he obtained a seat in the Irish Parliament for the 
borough of Enniscorthy. Prior to this time, however, he 
had published, iii. "An Argument proving that, according 
to the Covenant of Eternal Life revealed in the Scriptures, 
Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life 
without passing through Death, although the Human Nature 
of Christ himself could not thus be translated till he had 
passed through death;" a pamphlet which, from its singular 
style, and the wildness of the author's ideas, occasioned an 
extraordinary sensation. The Biographia Britannica which 
founds most of its statements upon a MS. memoir of Asgill 
by an intimate friend, states that this strange treatise was 
published before he went to Ireland, though it appears to 
have been printed for the first time in 1700; and in that 
work it is styled a treatise so amazing as to its matter, and 
dressed out in such an unusual manner, that in all probability 
it will be ever read, though never believed." Dr. Kippis, 
however, in a note in his edition of the Biog. Brit, says that 
it had already fallen into oblivion, and he characterizes it as 
an absurd and fantastical performance, in no way worthy of 
notice ; except as showing how far a man may be led by en- 



JOHN ASGILL, ESQ., M.P. 579 

tlmsiasm. Notwithstanding Ms repeated and solemn assurances 
of his belief in and respect for the Scriptures, the prevalent 
opinion occasioned by the appearance of this book was that 
he was an atheist, and it was alluded to by Dr. Sacheverell as 
one of the blasphemous writings which induced him to con- 
sider the Church in danger. This publication also called 
forth a pamphlet from DeFoe, entitled "An Enquiry into the 
case of Mr. Asgill's G-eneral Translation, showing that 'tis 
not a nearer way to Heaven than the grave." The clamour 
raised against the work was so great, that before Asgill could 
reach Dublin to take his seat, the Irish House of Commons 
had ordered it to be burnt as a blasphemous libel, and after 
he had sat four days, they expelled him on account of it. 
This expulsion took place on the 11th of October, 1703, and 
about the same time Asgill became involved in several law- 
suits, especially with the family of Nicholas Brown, Esq., 
who, in consequence of having received the title from James II., 
was usually called Lord Kenmare, and whose daughter he 
had married. His affairs in Ireland becoming thus embar- 
rassed, he returned to England, where, in 1705, he was 
elected Member of Parliament for the borough of Bramber 
in Sussex, at which place he had obtained considerable 
interest as executor to Dr. Barebone. He sat in Parliament 
until, in 1707, during an interval of privilege, he was arrested 
for debt, and committed to the Fleet. At the re-assembling of 
Parliament he wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons, 
and on the receipt of his letter a committee was appointed to 
search for precedents as to the course to be taken for his release, 
and in consequence of a long and curious report presented by 
them on the 16th of Dec, the Sergeant-at-Arms was sent with 
the mace to deliver him from custody. Previous to this, on 
the 25th of Nov., his obnoxious treatise had been brought 
before the House, and a committee had been appointed to 
report upon it ; and, in consequence of their report, notwith- 
standing a spirited defence made by Asgill on resuming his 
place in the House, it was condemned to be burnt by the 
common hangman, as profane and blasphemous, and he was 
expelled from the House on the 18th of Dec, 1707. There 
appears, however, to be considerable reason for believing that 
his pecuniary embarrassments were the real cause of his 
expulsion, and that his book was merely brought forward as 
a convenient handle against him. After this event, Asgill's 
affairs grew desperate, and he was compelled to remove to the 
Mint, after which he became a prisoner successively in the 



580 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

King's Bench, and the Fleet, within the rules of one or other 
of which prisons he resided until his death, in Nov., 1738, at 
the age of more than eighty, according to the memoir quoted 
in the Biog. Brit., which agrees also with the date of birth 
given above, which may, however, have been deduced from 
it ; or, about a hundred, according to a MS. note in Sir W. 
Musgrave's Biographical Adversaria. During this time lie 
transacted professional business, and also published a great 
number of pamphlets, chiefly of a political character. From 
a note in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iv., p. 88, it appears 
that he was noticed, in reference to his celebrated treatise, as 
"Mr. Asgill, a lawyer going to heaven by fire," among the 
authors of weekly papers and pamphlets, enumerated in the 
second number of the Monitor, a newspaper commenced in 
1714. Of the numerous pamphlets upon various political and 
theological subjects published by Asgill, many were of merely 
temporary interest. He was a warm supporter of the 
Protestant succession, and wrote many pamphlets upon that 
subject, several of which were repeatedly reprinted. Among 
these are the following, of which there are copies in the 
British Museum : iv. " Mr. Asgill* s De Jure Divino*" the 
second title-page of which explains the object of the pamphlet 
in the following words : ' The assertion is, that the title of the 
House of Hanover to the succession of the British monarchy 
(on failure of issue of her present Majesty) is a title 
hereditary, and of divine institution,' 8vo., 1710. v. " Mr. 
Asgill's Apology for an Omission in his late Publication." 8vo., 
1713, which contains abstracts of all the Acts of Parliament 
passed for securing the Protestant succession, vi. " The 
Pretender's Declaration, abstracted from two Anonymous 
Pamphlets; the one entitled 'Jus Sacrum,' the other — 
1 Memoirs of the Chevalier de St. George ; ' with some 
Memoirs of two other Chevaliers St. Greorge in the reign of 
Henry VII." The first edition of this pamphlet appeared in 
1713, and a second is dated 1715 ; but there is also a copy in 
the British Museum, dated 1714, which differs in no respect from 
the first, excepting that the title is ' ' The History of the Three 
Pretenders to the Crown of England ; with some Remarks 
upon the now revived Assertion of Hereditary Bight." It is 
scarcely necessary to add, that the two earlier Chevaliers St. 
Greorge referred to are Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. 
vii. "The Succession of the House of Hanover vindicated 
against the Pretender's Second Declaration (in folio), entitled 
* The Hereditary Eight of the Crown of England asserted, 



THE HEV. WM. BOWMAN, M.A. 581 

&c.,"' 8vo., 1714. This was published in answer to a cele- 
brated book by Mr. Bedford, and was, according to the 
Biog. Brit., the best answer Bedford ever had. viii. "The 
Pretender's Declaration Englished by Mr. Asgill ; with a Post- 
script before it, in relation to Dr. Lesley's Letter sent after 
it," 8vo., 1715. ix. " The Pretender's Declaration transposed," 
8vo., 1716. Asgill also wrote some pamphlets on the public 
funds ; and among his more miscellaneous pieces may be 
mentioned: x. "Mr. Asgill' s Defence on his Expulsion 
from the House of Commons of Great Britain, in 1707," 8vo., 
1712. xi. "An Essay for the Press," 1712; a pamphlet 
denouncing a proposed scheme for licensing and taxing 
the Press, xii. "A Question upon Divorce," 1717. xiii. "A 
Short Essay on the Nature of the Kingdom of God within 
us," 1718. xiv. "The Computation of Advantages saved to 
the Publick by the South Sea Scheme, as published in the 
Moderator, of Wednesday, the 26th of April, 1721, detected 
to be fallacious ; with a Postscript," 8vo., 1721. xv. "The 
Metamorphosis of Man by the Death and Resurrection of 
Christ from the Dead," Part I., 8vo., 1727. xvi. "Asgill 
upon Woolston; being an Abstract of Mr. Woolston's 
Six Discourses against the Miracles of Christ, be they more 
or less, and a Ridicule thereof; with a Postscript and a Post- 
Postscript," 8vo., 1730 * 

-1744.+ 

THE REV. WM. BOWMAN, M.A., 

(For Page 158.) 

Son of the Rev. Thos. Bowman, M.A., Vicar of Dewsbury, 
(who was inducted June 1st, 1716, and died in October, 1729,) 
was also Vicar of Dewsbury, Chaplain to Charles, Earl of 

* For further information see Kippis's Biog, Brit. ; Journals of the Irish 
House of Commons for September and October, 1703 ; Journals of the 
British House of Commons for November and December, 1707 ; Cunningham's 
Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen, vol. iv, p. 449; Catalogue of 
printed books in the library of the British Museum, 1841 ; Watt's Bib. Brit.; 
Lowndes's Bib. Man. ; the Biog. Diet, of the Society for the Diffusion of 
Useful Knowledge, vol. iii. Part 2, 1844; the Biog. Diet, of Chalmers, Knight, 
Rose, &c ; See also De Quincy's Works and the Gent. Mag., vols. 17, 19, &c. 

For a list of pamphlets, with some curious particulars respecting Asgill, 
see Notes and Queries, vol. vi. , pp. 3, 300 ; ix. , 376 ; xi. , 187 ; also for 
Dec. 6, 1862, p. 446, &c. An interesting notice of Asgill, with copious 
extracts from his writings, will be found in Southey's Doctor. The chief 
authority for the life of Asgill is the article by Dr. Campbell in the Biog. 
Brit., which is avowedly founded on " A Manuscript by Mr. A.N." 

f— 1741. Thos. Nettleton, Esq., M.D. (for page 150), born at Dews- 
bury, in Yorkshire, 1683 ; afterwards settled as a physician at Halifax, 
where he practised with great success ; was author of a " Treatise on Virtue 

00 



582 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEtfSIS. 

Hopetoun, and Vicar of Aldboro', wliere lie died in 1744. 
He was author of — i. " An Ecclesiastical History of England, to 
the End of the 16th Century," in 1 vol., folio, MS. ready for the 
press in 1742. ii. " The Traditions of the Clergy destructive 
of Eeligion ; with an enquiry into the grounds and reasons of 
such traditions : a Sermon (on Matth. xv., 6) preached at the 
Visitation held at "Wakefield, in Yorkshire, June 25th, 1731, 
by Wm. Bowman, M.A., Vicar of Dewsbury." This per- 
formance (which was charged with containing some of the 
sentiments that had been advanced by Dr. Tindal in his 
" Eights of the Christian Church,"* and by Mr, Gordon in 
his " Independent Whig,") excited no small degree of offence ; 
and several answers were written to it, and strictures made 
upon it, both of a serious and ludicrous nature. f Mr. 
Bowyer, the celebrated printer, upon this occasion, published 
a pamphlet, called " The Traditions of the Clergy nondestruc- 
tive of Eeligion ; being Eemarks on Mr. Bowman's Visitation 
Sermon, exposing that gentleman's deficiency in Latin and 
Greek, in Ecclesiastical History and true Eeasoning, by a 
Gentleman of Cambridge," pp. 32, 8vo., Lond., 1731 4 Mr. 

and Happiness," 8vo., Lond., 1736 — an esteemed work; a 7th edition of 
which was published at Edin., 12 mo., 1774, (a copy in Leeds Library, 8vo., 
1759). There are also several communications by him in the Phil. Trans., 
&c. He died in Jan., 1741, aged 58 years, and is interred in Dewsbury 
Church. For his Latin epitaph, &c. , see Whitaker's Loidix, p. 303, &c. ; 
Watt's Bib. Brit. ; Lowndes' Bibliog. Man. ; Darling's Cyc. Bibliog., &c. ; 
Thoresby's Diary (an early patron of inoculation), vol. ii., p. 343, &c. 

* See a comparison of Bowman and Tindal in " Grub Street versus Bowman, 
being a full and proper answer to the Vicar of Dewsbury's late Sermon 
against the Church and Clergy of England ; published in the Grub Street 
Journals, No. 85 and 87 ; with large additions, 1731." Against this charge, 
however, Mr. Bowman defends himself in his Preface. In those books, he 
says, "there are many things incomparably well said, and much just and 
demonstrative reasoning ;" yet professes that he no otherwise made use of 
them, than as the same thoughts naturally occurred to him, without a 
design of copyirjg. The sermon, which he published to vindicate himself 
from the censures and misrepresentations of some of its reverend auditors, 
was " the result of an impartial enquiry into the nature of a christian 
church, which was designed as the foundation of a much larger work." 
See the Preface to the Sermon ; and see also "A full Justification of the 
Doctrines contained in Mr. Bowman's Visitation Sermon, &c. 

t See Gent. Mag., vol. i., pp. 333, 349, 366, 408, 414, 419, 462, and vol. 
ii., pp. 622, 781, 960, &c. 

X Be-printed in the volume of Mr. Bowyer's " Miscellaneous Tracts," 
4to., p. 59. Mr. Clarke, in a letter dated Dec, 1731, says, "I believe I 
never thanked you for the seasonable correction you have given the Vicar 
of Dewsbury. It is necessary that all such writers should receive some 
animadversions ; though I find the man has more judgment than I at first 
imagined he could possibly be master of. He could not resist the vanity of 
being an author ; but is wise enough to think that there is no necessity of 
defending everything that he may take a fancy to print ; it will be impossible 
to provoke him to an answer." In another letter dated Oct. 15, 1732, the 



THE REV. WM. BOWMAN, M.A. 583 

Bowman's answer, we believe, never appeared ;* but lie was 
anonymously defended in " A full justification of the doctrines 
contained in Mr. Bowman's Sermon," &c, probably a pro- 
duction of bis own. And indeed it is generally supposed 
that his insignificant work was by no means deserving the 
notice which was taken of it from so many different quarters.f 
Besides nine or ten pamphlets, the papers of the time abound 
with strictures on a performance, which would of itself have 
" sunk into waste paper and oblivion." Some poetical squibs, 
which it gave birth to, are preserved at the end of Mr. 
Bowyer's remarks (in the " Miscellaneous Tracts," p. 76); 
and the whole was humorously burlesqued under the title of 
" Mr. Bowman's Sermon preached at Wakefield, in York- 
shire, versified, by Christopher Crambo, Esq., 1731." The 
above correspondent proceeds to say, "but whatever faults 
may be in the sermon, I suppose your friend Mr. AustenJ 
thinks it the very best that ever he printed. There is nothing 
that diverts me so much in the whole performance, as his 
being called an Erastian ; as if so much ill language could 
arise only from an untoward disposition in his brethren 
towards calling names; for my part, I look upon it as a 

same gentleman says, " I am not displeased with finding that my brother 
Bowman is like to have some demands upon you. His answer, which has 
long been threatened, will perhaps appear at last ; and it may possibly give 
you much employment ; you may find something to correct in every sheet. 
I was indeed, though a stranger to his person, at first something prejudiced 
in favour of his discretion ; that he was at least wise enough to retire from 
more danger. But, if he has a mind to try his fortune once more, whatever 
I may think of his courage, I shall have no great opinion of his conduct. 
As for you, I am sure it can never be your business to drop a controversy in 
which you have nothing to fear, &c." 

* In 1740, it appears that Mr. Bowyer printed, for Mr. Hutton, a . 
pamphlet called "A Reply to Mr. Bowman's letter to the Inhabitants of 
Dewsbury." 

+ "BodjJLCLVOV KX.V0L ', or, Hark to Bowman, 1731 ; containing Remarks,, 

Reflections, Speculations, Considerations, Ruminations, and Animadversions, 
upon, together with many just and proper Recriminations and Reprehen- 
sions of, Parson William Bowman's (the double Yorkshire Vicar's) Visita- 
tion declamation, held forth at Wakefield, 1731. At first published in the 
Journals of the most renowned Grubean Society, and now collected and 
digested into one orderly and methodical sixpenny tract, for the good, 
emolument, and merriment of the publick ; by the special order and com- 
mand of the said Society. 

1. " Ding — dong — rings — Par — son — Bow — Man's — bell ; 

2. Our — Wil — ham — has — de — claim — ed — well," &c. 

+ Mr. Stephen Austen, of St. Paul's Church-yard, who published Mr. 
Bowman's Sermon, which passed through at least six editions ; and which, 
according to Wilson, made such a noise among the black Gownsmen, that 
he was obliged to make a recantation in that church, fearing lest he should 
be degraded for speaking the truth. 



584 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

compliment, which he should have less reason to he offended 
with, because he has received so few upon this occasion." 
See Wilson's Historical Registers, MS., vol. i., in Leeds Old 
Library; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. i., p. 457, &c. ; 
Whitaker's Loidis ; Watt's Bihliotheca Britan. ; Darling's 
Cyclop. Bibliog., vol. i., p. 401, &c. 

1660—1747. 
LIEUT.-GEN. JOSHUA GUEST. 

(For Page 160.) 
This bold and fortunate son of Mars, who was a native of 
Leeds, from a very humble beginning, both in his civil and 
military capacity, deservedly rose to the rank of a general. 
He had actually been ostler to the person who kept the post- 
office at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire. So far was he from 
concealing his once subaltern situation in the army, when 
removed from the care of horses, that he always sent the first 
slice of meat from his table to the sentinels at his gate ; 
because, said he, "I remember, when I stood sentinel, I 
envied those who were at dinner within doors." In the north 
aisle of Westminster Abbey is a handsome monument erected 
to his memory, admirably well cut, having his bust thereon, in 
white marble, with the following concise, but energetic 
inscription on the tablet beneath : — 

Sacred 

To those virtues 

That adorn a christian and a soldier, 

This marble perpetuates the memory of 

Lieutenant-General Joshua Guest, 

Who closed a service of sixty years, 

By faithfully defending Edinburgh Castle 

Against the rebels, 1745. 

His widow (who lies near him) caused this to be erected. He 

died in 1747, aged 87 ; she, in 1751. A portrait of General 

Guest was engraved by S. Taylor in 1744, from a painting by 

Y. Diest, in 1724. See Noble's "Continuation of Granger's 

Biog. Hist, of England " Sfc. 

1685—1750.* 
THE EEV. THOMAS BARNABD, M.A., 

(For Page 163.) 
A very pious and learned man, was elected Master of the 
Grammar School, at Leeds, in 1711, and fulfilled the laborious 
duties of that important office with great reputation for nearly 

■ *— 1750. Mr. John Lucas, (for page 164,) born in the parish of Warton, in 
Lancashire, educated at Warton Free School, chosen by the committee of 



THE KEV. THOMAS BARNARD, M.A. 585 

forty years. He was the son of Mr. Thbs. Barnard (who died 
in 1685, aged 39) and Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Edward 
Brogden, town-clerk of Leeds, where he was born on the 8th 
and baptized on the 24th of March, 1685. He was educated 
at the Leeds Free Grammar School and at St. John's College, 
Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1708, and his 
M.A., in 1713. Mr. Barnard married, first, Ann, daughter of 
the Eev. Mr. Benson, lecturer of St. Peter's Church, Leeds ; 
but, she dying without issue, he married, secondly, Frances, 
daughter of the Eev. Francis Drake, Vicar of Pontefract; and 
had issue: — 1. Eev. Thos. Barnard, B.D., born in 1720; 
2. Charles, an attorney in Leeds ; 3. Frances, married to the 
Eev. Mr. Jackson, Eector of Addle. Mr. Barnard was the 
author of — i. " Some Occurrences in the Life of the Eev. Mr, 
Henry Lodge, M.A., Eector of Copgrove, Prebendary of 
Eipon, and Incumbent of St. John's Chapel, in Leeds; printed 
before a Sermon, preached by Mr. Barnard, upon the death of 
his dear friend, Mr. Lodge," 8vo., York, 1718. ii. "An 
Historical Character, relating to the holy and exemplary 
Life of the Eight Honourable Lady Elizabeth Hastings." To 
which are added: 1. One of the codicils of her last will,, 
setting forth her devise of lands to the Provost and Scholars 

Pious Uses for the parish of Leeds, in Yorkshire, to be master of the Free 
School of St. Mary Magdalen, at the Bridge End in Leeds, removed to be 
master of St. John's Charity School, June 17, 1726. He was very intimate 
with our famous antiquary, Ralph Thoresby, of Leeds, Gentleman, and 
assisted him in compiling his books, especially his catalogue of coins, &c. 
He died 26th June, 1750, aged 66, and was buried in St. John's Chapel Yard. 
Author of i. Collections relating to the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Natural 
History of Lancashire, with the Pedigrees of the G-entry, MS. ii. The 
History and Antiquities of the Parish Church and Parish of Warton, in 
Lancashire, MS. , with curious observations concerning the origin of churches, 
ceremonies, &c. This MS. dedicated to Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S., is 
dated on New Year's Lay, 1723, and contains two large vols. , folio. See 
Wilson's Mist.Begs. ; Thoresby's Diary (an antiquarian friend of Thoresby's), 
vol. ii. p. 281 ; accompanies him on a visit to Lady Elizabeth Hastings, 
pp. 388, 350, &c. See also Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vi. , 372, &c. 

— 1759. Mr. David Casley, (for page 168,) born at Beeston, in the parish of 
Leeds, in the County of York, 10th April, 1682. He was deputy librarian 
under Dr. Bentley to King G-eorge I. and II., and keeper of the Cottonian 
Library at Westminster, — succeeded the doctor as head keeper until his 
death. Soon after which the libraries were incorporated with the British 
Museum. He was one of the revivers of the society of antiquaries, and a mem- 
ber of the Gentleman's Society at Spalding ; author of — i. An account of the 
Fire at Ashburnham House, 23rd Feb. , 1731, and of the MSS. &c. burnt and 
damaged, published in the report about the Cottonian Library, folio, Lon- 
don, 1731. ii. A Catalogue of the MSS. in His Majesty's Library, 4to., 
London, 1734. iii. A continuation of the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. -, 
published in 2 vols. , folio, London, 1759. See Wilson's Historical Registers, 
vol. i. ; Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica ; Lowndes' Bibliographer'' s Manual ; 
Nichols' Lit. Ante, and Lit. lUust. ; Notes and Queries, xi., 382, &c. 



.586 BIOGKAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

of Queen's College, in Oxford, for the interest of eighteen 
Northern Schools. 2. Some observations therefrom. 3. A Schedule 
of her other perpetual Charities, with the principal Eules 
or their Administration, 12mo., Leeds, 1742. [There is a copy- 
in the Leeds Library.] He also assisted his brother-in-law, 
Mr. Francis Drake, in compiling and publishing his Eloracwm* 
He wrote also the very elegant Latin epitaph, inscribed on the 
tomb of that benevolent lady, in Ledsham Church, — a com- 
position on which Dr. Whitaker observes: "The splendid 
epitaph, while it merely does justice to her virtues, reflects no 
small honour on the learned and classical writer, the author 
also of her Life, who, with the faculty of writing very 
elegantly in an ancient language, never understood the graces 
of his mother tongue. . Of this," the Doctor adds, "I was 
assured many years ago by his more learned son." Mr. Bar- 
nard died May 20th, 1750, and was buried in the chancel of 
St. John's Church, at Leeds. Many of the distinguished 
persons, of whose education the Grammar School at Leeds 
may justly boast, would have been duly commemorated, had 
Mr. Barnard lived to complete his historical part of a Cata- 
logue of the Scholars before and during his Mastership. 
Among those under his own immediate care were, Sir Thos. 
Dennison,* the son of a clothier at Morth Town End, elevated 
to a seat in the King's Bench by his sole merit as a lawyer ; 
Dr. Christopher Wilson, son of Eichard Wilson, Esq., the 
elder, Eecorder of Leeds, who married a daughter of the cele- 
brated Bishop Gibson, and became himself Bishop of Bristol ; 
Dr. Samuel Kirshaw, Yicar of Leeds and Eector of Eipley, 
an attentive and conscientious parish priest ; Mr. Theophilus 
Lindsey, Yicar of Catterick, an honest and amiable man, who 
from a scrupulous conscience relinquished his preferment in 
the Established Church, and was the first minister of the 
Unitarian Chapel in Essex Street ; Dr. Berkenhout, son of a 
Dutch merchant settled at Leeds, a man of lively and versatile 
talents, who, after many changes of fortune and calling, dis- 
tinguished himself by some valuable compendia of Natural 
History; and his own son, the Eev. Thos. Barnard, f a man of 
great learning, but so much greater modesty, that he never dis- 

*See his epitaph, supposed to be written by Lord Mansfield, in Gent. 
Mag., vol. lxxxv., part 1., page 104, &c. ; and Leeds Worthies, p. 169, &c. 

fBorn, April 2nd, 1720 ; educated at the Leeds Grammar School, and 
afterwards at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1760; B.D.,1769; 
Rector of Newmarket, and of Withersfield, in Suffolk. He died in 1782, 
and was interred in the Church-yard of Withersfield, on the North side. 
Having forbidden any epitaph to be placed over his remains, an affectionate 



ME. THOMAS WILSON, F.S.A. 587 

played it excepting to his intimate friends. SeeWilson's Historical 
Memorials, MS., in Leeds Old Library; Whitaker's Loidis and 
Elmete, pp. 72, 145 ; Nichols's Literary Illustrations, vol. i., 
p. 762, &c, and vol. iv., pp. 374, 377, &c. ; Watt's Bibliotheca 
Britannica; Thoresby's Diary, vol. ii., p. 264, &c. 

-1760. 
ME. THOMAS WILSON, F.S.A., 

Succeeded Mr. Jno. Lucas as master of the Charity School, 
at Leeds. According to Dr. Whitaker, " Wilson, a native of 
the parish of Wragby, was a man not easy to be described: 
though dull, he was indefatigably and usefully laborious in 
gleaning after his master, Thoresby; but, like other men of 
inferior education, who by pertinacious industry have attained 
to considerable knowledge, he was sullen, disappointed, and 
envious ; at one time, though outwardly a conformist to the 
Church of England, he appears to have been in heart a 
Roman Catholic, but his general tone is that of a High 
Churchman ; under every change of opinion, he was weakly 
superstitious. To Thoresby himself, whom he probably 
courted and flattered when living,* his conduct was very 
ungrateful ; for, in his notes on a copy of the Due. Leod, now 
before me, he has treated his memory with all the contumely 
which low-bred petulance and malice could devise. Had it 
not been for this conduct, deeply indebted as I confess myself 
to have been to his labours, I should have desired to tread 

friend and parishioner, who desired to be interred near him, directed the 
following inscription to be added to a memorial of himself : — 

"Oppositos intra Cancellos 
Reconduntur reliquiae 
Thomce Barnard, S.T.B., 
Hujus Eeclesias Eectoris, 
Doctrina, pietate, modesti&, insignis, 
Ne talem premat oblivio virum, 
Quod nulla ita enim ipse jussit, 
Decoretur tumulus €7Tiypa(f)r], 
Justo amicum ornari encomio, 
Atque illius juxta cineres sese deponi voluit 
Antonius Oldfield." 
The inscription was written by Dr. James Nasmith, the learned editor 
of Tanner's Notitia, Monastica. See also Nichols's Lit. Anec. . vol. i. , p. 681, &c. 
* In the large paper copy of Whitaker's Thoresby, in the Leeds Church 
Institute, presented by ths late Wm. Gott, Esq., there is the following 
query in the margin written in pencil : "Is there any evidence that he was 
ever acquainted with Thoresby ? " None whatever, that we have seen ; for 
Thoresby died in 1725, and Wilson did not succeed Lucas till 1750 ; so that 
Dr. Whitaker's supposition is most probably unfounded. 



588 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

lightly upon his ashes." Having carefully examined his 
Notes, we are of opinion that the charge brought against 
him by Dr. Whitaker is much more severe than the occasion 
demanded. The following is Wilson's Introductory Account 
of his Historical Registers, 2 vols., MSS., in Leeds Library: — 
" It pleased God to implant in me a genius truly historical, 
though unqualified for so spacious an undertaking, because so 
remote from public libraries ; yet, an affectionate love to the 
history and antiquities of this kingdom, prompted me to the 
following lucubrations ; because none of our writers has 
attempted such a thing ; indeed, we have had several who 
have treated of our historians, &c, with learning and judg- 
ment (to whose writings I have had recourse), as Leland, 
Pits, Bale, Vossius, Whear, Wood, Nicholson, Hearne, &c, 
but they being not very methodical, I have, for the private 
satisfaction of myself and friends, extracted from the above 
said authors what in them is most material, disposing what I 
have collected alphabetically, according to the ingenious 
Mr. Collier and Mr. Bayle, in their Historical Dictionaries. 
1, I have given a short account of their Lives, such as I could 
procure from several MSS. and choice printed books, where 
and when born, what preferments they enjoyed, &c, but 
designing brevity, because 'Ars longa vita brevis.' I refer 
the curious to abundance of our biographers, who have 
written large volumes of single Lives. Also, I don't attempt 
to give the characters of all our historians, to avoid needless 
repetitions, which would clog the mind of a reader, but refer 
to several authors where they are displayed to the life. 2. I 
have inserted an account of their Works, manuscript and 
printed, where the MSS. are deposited, whether in public or 
private libraries ; if printed, the size of them, when and 
where printed, their several editions, and alterations, or 
additions ; in what language originally written ; if translated 
into any other language, I have inserted by whom, and when 
and where printed. Thus I have spent two or three hours 
each evening, for above nine years past, as a delightful amuse- 
ment after ten hours fatigue in teaching a number of poor 
children. ' Nulla dies sine linea.' I say, thus I have traversed 
remote and desert paths through the British, Saxon, Danish, 
Norman, English, ' and foreign histories (that treat of 
English affairs), for the gleanings of the ancients were better 
than the vintage of the latter times, — the very fragments of 
antiquity are venerable, &c, &c* These delightful studies 

* Every ingenious fragment is venerable to the virtuoso, and alwaj 7 s 



GAWEN KNI3HT, ESQ., M.D., F.R.S. 589 

have also secured me from the noise of a quarrelsome and 
contentious age, when even religious matters are almost 
wholly disputed into formality, and that which makes men as 
beasts, having no tendency to become wiser or better. Though 
a person be endowed with learning and natural parts, he 
cannot publish anything in this unhappy age but every pedant 
assumes the title of critic, and, like iEsop's cur, snarls at the 
performance even before it is exposed to public view ; this has 
been the unfortunate case of some of our most polite and 
impartial historians in this schismatical age, &c."* 

-1772, 
GAWEN KNIGHT, ESQ., M.D., F.E.S., 

(For Page 173.) 
An English philosopher, son of the Rev. Robert Knight, 
M.A., Yicar of Harewood, f where his son Gowin, or rather 
Gawen, was born. He was educated at Leeds (being for 

pleasant to a curious inquisitive mind ; but a collector should have the 

industry of a Hercides, and the patience of a Socrates, an eye like Argus, 

and a purse like Croesus. 

* Manuscripts, in Leeds Library, by Mr. Thos. Wilson, F.S.A., of Leeds : 

1* " Cnartularium Melsense," a collection of Papal Bulls, Boyal and 

Private Benefactions to the Abbey of Meaux, in the East Biding, 

Ex Bibliotheca Thorntonianse, folio, 1746. 

2. " The English Historian and Antiquary's Begister," containing an 

account of all the English Historians and their Works, manuscript 
and printed, also, of Eoreign Historians that have written of 
English affairs, 2 vols. , folio. 

3. "EamiliseLancastrieuses," or G-enealogical Descents of the Nobility 

and Gentry of Lancashire, from Original Becords in several hands, 
and the MSS. of Sir John Byron, Sir Gr. Booth, Mr. J. Hopkin- 
son, B. Thornton, Esq. , Balph Thoresby , and John Lucas, folio. 

4. "Liber Judiciarius," or Domesday Book, for the County of York, 

folio. 

5. " Leeds Charities." The wills of Thos. Ward, Sir W. Sheaffelde, 

Josiah Jenkinson, J. Harrison, Bev. H . Bobinson, Mrs. M. Botter, 
with the grants of Jno. Harrison and G-. Bannister. 

6. "Pedigrees and Arms of the Yorkshire Families," from the MSS. 

of Jno. Hopkinson, gent., corrected by Mr. Wilson, 4 vols., folio. 
(West Biding, 2 vols., East Biding, 1 vol., North Biding, 1 vol.) 
.7. Sharp's (Abp.) Historical account of the Silver and Gold Coins 
in England, Scotland and Ireland, with account of his Life, by 
Mr. Wilson, 4to. 
These valuable MSS- are all in the hand writing of Thos. Wilson, 
E.S. A.., and were presented to the Leeds Library by his son, Mr. 
Joseph Wilson. See also Nichols' Lit. Illust. iii., 366-72: v., 
507-8, &c. 
f Rohert Knight, M.A., of Christ's Church Coll., Oxford, was presented to 
the vicarage of Harewood, by the truly pious Lady Elizabeth Hastings. He 
died July 2nd, 1747, and was buried in Harewood Church, July the 5th. 
He had a fine collection of coins, &c, which he left to his son, Dr. G. 
Knight. 



590 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

some time a student under Mr. Thos. Wilson, F.S.A.), and 
afterwards at Magdalen Coll., Oxford, where he took Ids 
degree of Bachelor of Physic in 1742. He afterwards became 
M.D., settled in London, and had an extensive practice. His 
fine genius soon made him F.R.S., and Fellow of the College 
of Physicians. In 1 748, he published * An Attempt to 
demonstrate that all the Phenomena in Nature may be 
explained by Attraction and Eepulsion," 4to. Falling into 
difficulties, however, he made his case known to Dr. Fother- 
gill, who went into his closet, and then returned with a 
cheque upon his banker for a thousand guineas, which he put 
into his friend's hand, and told him to go home, and set his 
heart at rest. In 1755, on the purchasing of the Harleian 
MSS., and Sir Hans Sloane's collection, to found the British 
Museum, he was chosen by the trustees to be head-keeper to 
unite and put in order the above collections, with the 
Oottonian, Royal, and other libraries given to the public; 
the trustees having purchased the late Duke of Montagu's 
grand house for a repository. He died in 1772. See Wilson's 
Historical Collections, MSS. ; Nichols's Lit.Anec, iii., 258; v., 
534; ix., 739; Watt's Billio. Briton.; the Biog. Diet, of 
Rose, Maunder, &c. ; Notes and Queries, x., 281, &c. 

1750—1807-* 
ME. JOHN EATHBONE. 

(For Page 232.) 
This artist, who was born about the year 1750, was, according 
to Stanley in his edition of Brian's Diet, of Painters, &c, 1849, 
a native of Cheshire, though we have it on good authority 
that he was born in Meadow Lane, Leeds, where he spent the 
greater part of his life, and then retired to Liverpool. With- 
out the help of an instructor he acquired a respectable talent 
as a landscape painter, and his pictures were frequently 
embellished with figures by Ibbetson, Anderson, and other 
contemporary artists. He died in 1807. 

* —1806. (For page 228.)— In Botherham Church, on the north side of 
the chancel, there is a tablet of marble, with a basso-relievo of three females 
weeping round an urn, by Flaxman. It is to the memory of Samuel Buck, 
Esq., recorder of Leeds, who died on the 8th (ante-kal.) of August, 1806, 
aged 60. According to another account, Sainl. Buck, of New Grange, Esq., 
of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, and recorder of Leeds, died 23rd July, 
1806, and was buried at Rotherham. He was the son of Wm. Buck, who 
was the son of Samuel Buck, of Botherham, Esq., who was lord of the 
manor of Ulley, near Botherham, and died in 1747 ; and he was the father 
of Anne and Catherine Esther Buck ; Anne, elder of the two daughters and 
co-heirs, married at Leeds, 15th Jan., 1798, to Sir Francis Lindley Wood, 



MR. ROBERT HARTLEY CROMEK. 591 

1771-1812. 
ME. KOBEBT HAETLEY CBOMEK,* 

(For Page 247.) 
Engraver, only son of Thos. Cromek, of Barwiek-in-Elmet, 
near Leeds, was born at Kingston-upon-Hull, in June, 1771. 
He was intended for the law ; but lie soon showed his dislike 
to it, and his parents wisely forbore to contend against this 
antipathy, and suffered him to follow the bent of his genius, 
which led him to literature and the arts. He passed some 
years of his early life at Manchester, where he devoted much 
time to study. Here he first showed a talent for engraving ; 
and, in order to cultivate it, he went to London, and became 
a pupil of Bartolozzi. At that period, and even much later, 
book embellishments were almost, if not entirely, the only 
sources of employment for engravers ; and the remuneration 
which resulted from the speculative publishers of embellished 
works was barely sufficient to enable them to exist. Having 
improved his literary taste by the perusal of the best authors, 
and by conversation with some of the most eminent literary 
persons, to whom he had been introduced, he became desirous 
to gratify his varied tastes by a combination of literature and 
art, by which he hoped to improve his own prospects, and to 
stem the tide of bad taste, then so prevalent. The result was 
the production of "Blair's Grave," and "Stothard's Canter- 
bury Pilgrims." Mr Wm. Carey, author of the " Critical 
Description of Stothard's Masterpiece," observes — "As the 
splendid edition of Shakspeare, by the Boydells, roused 
Macklin to undertake his magnificent edition of the Bible, 
there was a hope that Cromek' s liberality and enterprise 
would have excited a salutary competition, and opened a field 
of exertion for the ablest designers and engravers in this 

Bart., of Hemsworth ; and Catherine, younger daughter and co-heir, mar- 
ried at Warmsworth, 10th Sept. , 1811, to the Eev. Alexander Cooke, rector 
of Warmsworth, and vicar of Arksey, in whose descendants the manor of 
Ulley is now vested. For his pedigree and coat of arms, see Hunter's 
South Yorkshire, vol. ii., &c. 

* Mr. Thomas Hartley Cromek, son of the above, was born in London, 
August 8th, 1809. He studied the elements of figure drawing under the 
superintendence of Mr. James Hunter, an indifferent painter of portraits at 
Wakefield. In 1826 he received some instruction in landscape painting from 
Mr. Joseph Rhodes, of Leeds, an artist of exquisite taste in the composition 
of his landscapes, which, however beautiful, are little known out of York- 
shire. Mr. Cromek resided in Italy and Greece from 1830 to 1849 ; Eome 
being his principal residence for thirteen years. In 1850 he was elected by 
unanimous vote an Associate Member of the New Society (Institute) of 
Painters in Water Colours. His subjects are generally architectural and 
landscape. We believe he is now living at Wakefield. 



592 BIOGKAPHIA LEODIENBIS. 

country. By his death, in the prime of life, the graphic art 
lost an active friend, and important source of encouragement." 
In 1808, Mr. Cromek published the " The Eeliques of Eobert 
Burns," a collection of letters and songs which he had col- 
lected in Scotland. Two years later appeared another still 
more charming volume, "Remains of Nithsdale and G-alloway 
Song." Among the numerous engravings (book plates) which 
bear his name may be specially mentioned the illustrations to 
Gesner's works, from Stothard's exquisite designs, and also the 
plates for Sharpe's edition of " The Spectator," He died of 
consumption, at his residence, No. 64, Newman Street, 
London, on the 14th of March, 1812, in the 41st year of his 
age. See Nichols's Lit. lllust., vii., 213-5; Stanley's new 
edition of Bryan's Painters , &c. 

-1817. 

ME. JULIUS 02ESAB IBBOTSON, 

(For Page 264.) 

An English landscape painter, was born at Churwell Bank, 
near Leeds, where he resided many years, and afterwards 
retired to Masham. At the period in which he flourished he 
was considered a good artist, and his pictures were in request. 
His landscapes are fair representations of English scenery, 
enlivened with cattle and figures, and generally of a moderate 
size. His extraordinary genius as a painter has been univer- 
sally acknowledged by persons of taste, both collectors and 
professors, He was denominated " the Berghem of England," 
by a late venerable President of the Eoyal Academy, (Benj. 
"West, Esq.) He was in private life benevolent and sincere, 
well informed in various branches of science and literature, 
acute in reasoning, and in his conversation abounding in, 
cheerfulness and humour.^ This eminent artist died at 
Masham in 1817, leaving a widow and children. See Gent. 
Mag. for 1817, part ii., p. 636; Stanley's Brian's Diet, of 
Painters, &c. 

* The following extract is from Notes and Queries for August 30th, 1856, 
p. 172. In the " Gamut or Accidence of Painting in Oil," by Julius Csesar 
Ibbotson, published in 1803, the author, alluding to an account of his life, 
proceeds : — " But I will not impose it on the world at present, it belonging 
more immediately to a work for which I have collected a prodigious quantity 
of materials, and which I have received great encouragement to bring for- 
ward. It is ' Anecdotes of Picture Dealers, Picture Dealing, and Pictures,' 
and will be entitled Humbug a ologia. Of which," observes the artist in the 
conclusion, "at any rate, if I can get but the Humbuggologia,^ it will, among 
other sensations, excite laughter in no common degree, which is reckoned 
very wholesome." Now, can any one refer to any account of the artist, and 



THE REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN, M.A. 593 

1764—1838. 
THE BEY. SAMUEL MABSDEN, M.A., 

(For Page 373.) 
Was born in the year 1764, at Horsforth,* a village in the 
neighbourhood of Leeds. He graduated at St. John's College, 
Cambridge, and in 1793 went out as second chaplain to New 
South Wales. A prospect more truely hopeless than that 
which presented itself to Mr. Marsden when he arrived at his 
post cannot be imagined. He was, however, precisely the 
man for the place. He was a good man and hated sin, but 
he was just as little to be depressed at sight of the seemingly 
overwhelming tide of evil which he had to encounter, as he 
was to be carried away by it. A more sensitive man might 
have sunk down in despair and horror ; he was not sensitive, 
and was abundantly sanguine. A still more useful quality 
than his sanguineness was, perhaps, his great courage. He 
had no idea of any other fear save the fear of Grod ; personal 
risk was a thing he never thought of. In commencing his 
crusade against the vice of the colony, the odds against him, 
and the ferocity of the people he had to deal with, seem never 
to have entered for a moment into his account. He was just 
as decided and unreserved in reproving sin as though the 

particularly to the work in question ? which, if in existence, would probably 
furnish much rare and valuable information to the picture public. Many an 
anecdote and history of pictures might be expected from an artist of such 
varied experience and abilities as Ibbotson, whom Mr. West termed the 
English Berghem. He also promises the publication of his water-colour 
process, which, I fear, never made its appearance, although said to be in 
great forwardness. Ibbotson is said to have resided at Masham in Yorkshire, 
to be out of the way of the picture dealers, at which place he died. Are his 
pictures frequently met with in Yorkshire ? Is anything known of John 
Smithjthe artist and his drawings, of whom Ibbotson says, "In tinted draw- 
ings no one, I believe, ever came so near the tint of nature as Mr. John 
Smith?" (Signed) Art-Curius, Leeds. 

Ibbotson was a particular friend of Burns, the celebrated Scottish poet ; 
and among other pictures he painted " Tarn O'Shanter," and " All Hallow 
E'en ;" and also a view in the lake district, near Windermere, which we 
believe are now in the possession of John Rhodes, Esq. , of Potternewton. We 
have been informed that he bad a great antipathy to lawyers and parsons ; 
and that during the time that he was living at Bowness, the celebrated 
Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, author of "An Apology for the Bible," 
&c, who died in 1816, and is interred in the church-yard at Bowness, once 
called upon him ; and that Ibbotson made a remark to the effect, that now 
the bishop had visited his shop, he would be glad to return the call, and 
visit his lordship's (alluding we suppose to the church). See also Notes and 
Queries, vol. x. pp. 145, 199 ; 2nd series. 

* According to another account, the Rev. Samuel Marsden was born at 
Earsley, near Leeds, and his whole career up to the time of his death in 
Sydney, on the 12th May, 1838, was of more than ordinary interest. After 
being educated at Hull Grammar School, Mr. Marsden went to Magdalene 
College. He left Cambridge in 1792, and in January of the following year, he 



594 BIOGRAPHIA LE0DIENSI8. 

public feeling had been all on his side, and his position had 
been as free from danger as in some quiet English parish. 
The retirement of the senior chaplain, which took place almost 
immediately after his own arrival, made his situation all the more 
responsible and arduous. Besides adding largely to his pastoral 
duties, it left him to fight all his battles single-handed. He 
seems, however, to have been one of those men who stand 
firmest when they stand alone. .Almost as soon as he was 
established in the settlement, Mr. Marsden was appointed a 
magistrate. Such a blending of sacred and secular vocations 
as the appointment in his case involved is certainly not desir- 
able ; and, as far as he personally was concerned, the office 
brought nothing but trouble. There can be no question, 
however, of the purity of the motive which induced him to 
acquiesce in the appointment ; and to the colony his acceptance 
of it was an unmixed advantage, although one of the kind of 
advantages of which the extent is not quickly to be recognised. 
The courts of judicature in New South Wales formed no 

was ordained and appointed chaplain to the new Australian colony of Sydney. 
From the date of his arrival in Botany Bay, in 1794, he devoted himself 
with unwearying perseverance, not only to the duties of his spiritual office, 
but also to the commercial interests of the settlers in the infant colony, and 
was the first to introduce into his native land the first bales of that 
Australian wool, which has now become so important an item in the imports 
of this country. He laboured assiduously in the erection of churches and 
schools, and was particularly active in establishing "The Model Farm" of 
Sydney, for the rearing of sheep. He sailed for England with the first 
wool in barrels, and arrived with it at London and Leeds, in 1808. The 
circumstance was brought under the notice of the government, and the 
Prime Minister — Lord Castlereagh— with Sir Jos. Banks, introduced the 
Rev. S. Marsden to King George III. His Majesty ordered a suit of 
clothes to be made from the first cloth manufactured out of Austrahan wool 
in 1809. His Majesty next presented Mr. Marsden with five sheep (rams), 
Merino breed, for " The Model Farm " at Sydney. Mr. Marsden arrived 
with them safe in Australia in 1810, and the wool trade of Sydney dates 
from the year 1811. In 1814, he fitted out an expedition to New Zealand 
to christianise and civilize the cannibal tribes of the Northern Island ; and 
took with him cattle, horses, sheep, &c. He was the first white man that 
succeeded in teaching them religion, agriculture and arts, and preached the 
first sermon ever heard in New Zealand to crowds of savages, on December 
25, 1815, from the text Luke ii. 10-11—" Behold I bring you glad tidings," 
&c. — and for 23 years he had the supervision of the missionary operations 
in New Zealand, and made seven voyages to, and expeditions through those 
extensive Islands, teaching religion and agriculture, the mode of rearing 
sheep, &c. He was occupied in building churches, schools, &c, until 
civilisation took deep root in the country. 

A subscription (now amounting to upwards of £90) has been started in 
Farsley for the purpose of raising a monument to the memory of the late 
Rev. Samuel Marsden. A local committee, consisting of the Rev. P. J. 
Maning, Captain Hainsworth, and Messrs. Grimshaw, Whitaker, E. Slater, 
J. Lambert, and B. Wade, has been appointed to carry out the proposed 
memorial. See Leeds Mercury for October 6, 1866. 



THE REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN, M.A. 595 

exception to the general corruptness of the settlement. The 
justice administered was of the most uncertain kind, and the 
relative proportions of punishments to crimes a matter never 
considered. Offenders were either allowed to pass without 
any penalty at all, or received sentences of which the barbar- 
ity was a disgrace to a society professing civilisation. The 
introduction of a thoroughly humane, honest, and fearless 
man into the magistracy, was, under the circumstances, to be 
regarded as a public blessing ; but the amount of annoyance 
it entailed upon the individual introduced was hardly to be 
calculated. Mr. Marsden was constantly at issue with his 
brother-magistrates, and even with the governor himself. In 
accepting the appointment, he had, with his constitutional 
hopefulness, no doubt depended upon effecting a rapid refor- 
mation in the judicial system ; he had reckoned upon at once 
inspiring the magistrates with a deeper sense of their 
responsibilities, and truer and purer ideas of justice. He 
soon found, however, that this could only be looked for as a 
work of time ; that the rock was not to be worn away with a 
few drops of water. But the unflinching integrity of his own 
conduct, and his steadily-maintained warfare against iniquity, 
in whatever shape or person he discovered it, were not wholly 
without their influence ; and even in the hatred he incurred 
there was an infusion of respect. In 1807 Mr. Marsden paid 
a visit to England, where he remained more than a year. 
Amongst the many important concerns which occupied him 
during this visit, not the least important were those bearing 
upon the welfare of New South Wales. The colonial office 
encouraged him to give them his suggestions respecting the 
colony, although they do not seem to have paid much heed to 
his advice ; a neglect which, albeit it is perfectly characteristic 
of the species, is to be regretted. Mr. Marsden had studied 
the affairs of the settlement with intense and steady interest, 
he had had very unusual opportunities of observation for 
fourteen years, and he had meditated upon what he had 
observed with all the power of a very strong and clear intellect. 
His recommendations certainly had peculiar claims to 
attention. In his communications with the colonial office he 
lauded the practice of remitting the sentences of well- 
conducted convicts, and of granting them portions of land, 
but he warmly reprobated the proposal to admit such men to 
the magisterial bench. He strongly urged the desirability of 
allowing the wives of convicts to accompany their husbands 
into banishment ; but, above all, he entreated that some suit- 



596 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEXSI8. 

able accommodations shouldbe provided for the female convicts, 
who were exposed to the most dangerous temptations and 
privations, in consequence of their being no proper building 
to receive them upon their arrival at the settlement. When 
he returned to the colony, General Macquarie had suc- 
ceeded to the governorship. To the exertions of this governor 
the colony was largely indebted. In the twelve years during 
which he was at the head of its affairs, it made great advance- 
ment. Public buildings were erected, and roads constructed, 
and discovery pushed into the interior of the country. During 
this period free emigration became, also, more common, 
although the popular prejudice in England against 
emigration to a penal settlement was still only giving way 
very slowly. When Mr. Marsden came to England in 
1807, he brought some wool over with him, and had it 
manufactured at Leeds, where it was pronounced equal, if 
not superior, to the wool of France and Saxony. One pro- 
minent feature in General Macquarie' s system of management 
was his extensive patronage of the convicts. It was a 
favourite theory of his that a man's former life ought to be 
forgotten as soon as he set foot in the settlement. It was 
not long after he assumed the government before emancipated 
convicts began to be appointed to important public situations, 
— amongst others, to the magistracy. Such proceedings at 
once excited Mr. Marsden's indignation. It was a policy he 
had long foreseen and deprecated. He represented to the 
governor that men who had been themselves punished for 
infringements of the law, could not, without glaring violation 
of propriety, be chosen as its administrators; and besides, 
some of the men promoted were known to be men of grossly 
vicious lives. He refused to be associated with these magis- 
trates, and tendered, the resignation of his magisterial 
appointment. The resignation was not accepted; but his 
conduct had not only raised him up a powerful body of 
inveterate enemies in the persons of the new magistrates and 
their friends and followers, but it had excited a very strong 
feeling of ill-will in the mind of the governor. General 
Macquarie seems fully to have perceived the Senior Chaplain's 
useful and excellent qualities, and would no doubt have been 
a very firm friend to him, if the latter could have approved 
of all his plans, and seconded all his measures. The governor 
retired from office in 1821, and was succeeded by Sir Thos. 
Brisbane, who returned to England in 1825, and was succeeded 
by Sir Ralph Darling, who, in his turn, was succeeded in 



THE REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN. 597 

1831 by Sir Eichard Bourke. This governor made for him- 
self an enduring reputation in the colony, and during his 
term of authority it made giant strides. It was during his 
governorship that a permanent settlement was effected in 
Victoria. When Sydney was erected into a bishopric, Mr. 
Marsden's friends indulged a very natural expectation that 
he would be appointed the first bishop. It was Dr. Broughton, 
however, who received the appointment; and nothing better 
proves the genuine disinterestedness and humility of Mr. 
Marsden's character, than the demeanour he exhibited upon 
the occasion, and throughout his intercourse with the bishop ; 
it clearly showed that it was not the hope of temporal honour 
which had inspired the long labours of his indefatigable life. 
This life was now rapidly drawing to its close. In the 
summer of 1837 Mr. Marsden completed his seventy- third 
year; and this was the last summer he was to see on earth. 
The last months of his life were spent quietly and happily 
in his own parish of Paramatta, and in the month of May, 
1838, he died. As has been the case with many another 
good man, the services he had rendered began to be acknow- 
ledged as soon as he had passed out of the reach of 
acknowledgments. The proposal to raise a monument to 
his memory was met with enthusiasm; * and this feeling 

* After his death at Sydney a memorial was at once raised to him at a cost 
of £6000, with which a memorial Church was erected and endowed. To his 
exalted piety and sterling character, his simplicity, unselfishness, high pur- 
poses, and noble enterprises, it is earnestly hoped that a lasting and appro- 
priate memorial may also be raised in his native place. In pursuance of 
this purpose, the committee have decided that all the chancel windows of 
Farsley Church should be filled with stained glass, and that a suitable 
monument of Aberdeen granite should be erected in the churchyard, on 
which is to be inscribed his name, labours, and virtues. The Rev. P. J. 
Maning, Incumbent of Farsley, has kindly written to say that there can 
be no doubt about Farsley being the place of his birth, as a copy or 
certificate of his birth (July 28th, 1764) and baptism may be obtained to 
that effect, and that he has, moreover, most ample proof under Marsden's 
own hand-writing, that when ten or eleven years old, he left Farsley and 
went to his uncle's, a blacksmith at Horsforth, where he lived and laboured 
as a blacksmith for several years, and obtained at Rawden, • an adjoining 
village,, the rudiments of his education from the Incumbent, the Rev. S. 
Stones. Thus Horsforth was the place where he was brought up, but 
Farsley where he was born. " Magdalene Coll., Camb.," is engraved under 
his first likeness, taken at his request and direction in London, 1809. It is 
just possible he may have gone to St. John's, and left it for Magdalene. 
" He never graduated," or took any degree. He was ordained by royal 
mandate, Jan. 1st, 1793, and appointed by special commission, chaplain to 
the new settlement at Sydney. In 1794 he arrived at Botany Bay, and was 
appointed a magistrate in 1796. In the Rev S. Taylor's large volume on 
New Zealand, it will be found that a very considerable portion of the volume 
is taken up with the Rev. Samuel Marsden's life and labours ; a great part 
of which is from MSS. by Marsden himself. The cottage in which Marsden 

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598 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

appears to have been something more than a transient turn 
of popular caprice. New South Wales seemed to see that 
she had lost a friend, and a friend who had been well tried. 
Mr. Marsden was buried in Paramatta church, and more than 
sixty carriages, we are told, followed his remains to the 
grave. Such a funeral procession is suggestive. Sixty years 
before, and the project of founding a penal settlement in 
Australia was regarded as too wild for any reasonable person 
to countenance; the country was pronounced an unfit place of 
habitation, even for felons. Less than fifty years before, and 
the produce of the sterile lands around Sydney Cove was 
actually insufficient to supply the necessities of the thousand 
miserable beings who had been exiled to its shores. The 
privations of these unhappy wretches were only to be equalled 
by their pollution. And now, in 1838, the stone-built streets 
of Sydney were thronged with vehicles, of which the carriages 
of the opulent formed a conspicuous part : it was no uncommon 
thing for individuals of the town to have sums of £20,000 in 
hard cash, ready for investment; and private companies 
would send out £100,000. The limits of the old colony were 
yearly being pushed farther and farther; and new colonies 
had sprung up, whose vigorous infancy would have put to 
shame the early growth of the first settlement. But even 
this prosperity sinks into comparative insignificance when we 
glance beyond 1838, at the Australia of our own day, — the 
unvisionary El Dorado of modern times, — the wealthiest 
dependency of the wealthiest power of the world. In his 
connection with New South Wales, it is most frequently a 
stern, unyielding side of Mr. Marsden' s character that is 
exhibited ; but in his connection with New Zealand, although 
his courage and inflexible steadiness of purpose are no less 
conspicuous, he appears in a more winning aspect.* 

for a long, full and particular account, see the Gent. Mag. 
for October, 1858, and also " Memoirs of the life and labours 
of the Eev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain 
of New South Wales; and of his early connexion with the 
Missions of New Zealand and Tahiti. Edited by the Eev. 

was 'born stood within fifty yards of Parsley Church. Dr. Mason Good also 
published a summary of his character and labours in 1809, which appeared 
in the Eclectic Review, vol. v. part ii. pp. 988, 995. There is a likeness 
of him prefixed to his life, and published by the Religious Tract Society, 
from a portrait, in crayons, in the Church Missionary Society's House, 
London. 

* In 1820 he again visited England, and was introduced to George IV., 
who presented him with a sword and some costly fire-arms, &c. 



MU. WILLIAM BOWMAN. 599 

J. B. Marsden, M.A." (London, the Eeligious Tract Society.) 
For a long Review, &c. of the above Memoir, see also the 
Chris. Oteer., for 1845, p. 796; and for 1846, pp. 10, 75, 
and 145. 

1761—1845. 

THE EEY. JOSEPH PEOOTEE, D.D., 

(For Page 415.) 

Who was educated at the Leeds Grammar School, and after- 
wards became master of St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, 
died at the college lodge, on Monday evening, November 
10th, 1845. Dr. Procter graduated in the year 1783, when 
he was third wrangler and Smith's prizeman. He was 
shortly afterwards elected to a fellowship, and in the year 
1799, succeeded Dr. Lowther Yates to the mastership of his 
college, and in 1845 was succeeded by the Eev. Henry 
Philpott, D.D., now Bishop of Worcester. Dr. Procter was 
ex-officio a Canon of the Cathedral Church of Norwich. He 
took his M.A. degree in 1786, B.D. in 1799, and D.D. (by 
royal mandate) in 1801* See Whitaker's Loidis ; the 
Cambridge Advertiser, and Leeds Intelligencer, for November 
15th, 1845. 

1828— 1858.t 

ME. WM. BOWMAN, 

Artist and antiquarian draughtsman, formerly of Leeds and 
York, died at Scarborough, April 21st, 1858. He was an 
artist of considerable ability and great promise. His works, 
which are in the hands of many private parties, display much 

* The following is a copy of his baptismal register (kindly forwarded by 
the Rev. Dr. Robinson, master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge) : — 
" 1761, March 25, Joseph, son of the Rev. Mr. Procter, Curate of Ferry 
Fryston (now Ferrybridge), was baptized." Dr. Procter was Vice- 
Chancellor of the University in the years 1801 and 1825. The tradition in 
college is that Dr. Procter was brought up at Hatfield, near Doncaster, his 
father becoming curate of the place. At the same time, Mr. Turton was a 
surgeon in the parish, and the father of the celebrated Dr. Turton, who 
entered, at St. Catharine's College, became senior-wrangler in 1805, and 
successively tutor of Catharine, Lucasian professor of mathematics, regius 
professor of divinity, Dean of Westminster, and Bishop of Ely. The 
Turtons and the Procters were friends, and through Dr. Procter, Mr. Turton 
was induced to enter at Catharine's. There is a portrait of Dr. Procter in 
the college combination-room, which has been engraved by Mr. Rowe, 
Engraver, of Cambridge. He was uncle to the Rev. Francis Procter, 
author of "A History of the Book of Common Prayer," and vicar of 
Witton, North Walsham, Norfolk. 

t — 1860— Liedt. -Colonel John James Brandling, C.B., of the Horse 
Brigade, of the Royal Artillery, died at Woodsley House, Leeds, the 



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600 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSI8. 

versatility of talent, and are deservedly admired for their 
close resemblance to nature. He excelled in sketches of 
rustic -characters and nooks of English scenery ; but he also 
showed considerable power as a delineator of historical events ; 
and had he been placed in more fortunate circumstances and 
blessed with robust health, he probably would, even in the 
short career which has been allotted to him, have won a high 
position amongst the best artists of the day. Mr. Bowman 
was also an antiquarian draughtsman of considerable ability, 
and had, chiefly under the direction of the Eight Hon. Lord 
Londesborough, and Thomas Bateman, Esq., of Yolgrave, 
opened many important barrows on the East Eiding wolds 
and the Derbyshire moors ; and he was the projector, editor, 
and illustrator of an interesting local work, printed at Leeds, 
entitled Reliquics Antiqued ~Eborqcenses. He was for some time 
a pupil of the late W. Etty, and was a warm admirer of that 
great artist. About three years before his death, Mr. Bowman 

residence of his brother-in-law, Sir Peter Fairbairn, April 16th, 1860, 
aged 39 years. The deceased was present throughout the Crimean cam- 
paign, for which he had received the medal and clasps, as also the decoration 
of the Medjidie of the 5th class. See the Gent. Mag. for June, 1860, p. 640, &c. 
— 1861 — John Clapham, Esq. , one of our most venerable and esteemed 
townsmen, died at his residence in Hanover Square, Leeds, on the 5th of 
November, 1861, in the 83rd year of his age. On the reform of the municipal 
corporation, he was appointed one of the first aldermen and borough 
magistrates. In early life he was in business as a woollen merchant in 
Hunslet Lane. He was a zealous friend of civil and religious liberty, and 
left a name honoured by all who knew him. He was the son of John 
Clapham, Esq.., of Hunslet Lane, Leeds, who died in Dec. 1829, in the 80th 
year of his age ; who was appointed to the treasurership of the Leeds 
General Infirmary on the decease of Mr. Alderman Cookson, and continued 
to discharge the duties of his office for upwards of seven years, until his 
health obliged him to remove to a warmer climate. He (the senior) was. 
brother to the Rev. Samuel Clapham, M.A., author of several volumes of 
" Selected Family Sermons," &c, who died in 1830 ; for a sketch of whom 
see Leeds Worthies, p. 324, &c. 

— 1861 — James Richardson, Esq. , Clerk of the Peace of the Borough of 
Leeds, from 1836 to 1861 ; a man of ability and public spirit — of great 
earnestness of character, and high moral and religious excellence, died 
November 7th, 1861, in the 74th year of his age. He was succeeded in 1862 
by his son, Jas. W". Hamilton Richardson, Esq., who has an original 
portrait of him, by Coupland. — The following Resolution was passed at the 
Town Hall, in the borough of Leeds, in the county of York, on Saturday, 
the 9th day of November, 1861, at a Quarterly and Special Meeting of the 
Council of the said borough ; present, James Kitson, Esq. , Mayor, in the 
chair ; Resolved — 

"That this Council begs to express its sympathy with the family of the late James 
Richardson, Esq., in the loss sustained by them in the death of the late Mr. Richard- 
son, who for 25 years held the important office of Clerk of the Peace of this borough, 
and who, during his prolonged life and until overcome by the infirmities of advanced 
age, was an active and useful citizen, and so discharged the duties devolving upon 
him as to secure the general respect and esteem of his fellow-townsmen ; and, that 
& copy of this resolution be forwarded to James William Hamilton Richardson, Esq. 

"James Kitson, Mayor." 



THE HON. EDWIN LASCELLES, D.C.L., ETC. 601 

was affected with, congestion of the lungs, probably the 
result of hard labour at his easel, and for the benefit of his 
health he removed to Scarborough, where he died— -we do 
not know his exact age, but we believe he was only alBout 30 
years old. He was of a kind heart, and gentle disposition, 
and won the good opinion and respect of all who knew him, 
and his death was sincerely regretted by a large circle of 
friends and admirers. See the Leeds Intelligencer, &c. 

1799—1865.* 

THE HON. EDWIN LASCELLES, D.C.L., &c, 

Whilst paying a visit at the residence of Mrs. Torke, at 
Wighill Park, near Wetherby, and whilst at luncheon with 
some of the family, was seized with apoplexy, and died almost 
immediately, and before medical aid could be procured, April 
25th, 1865. Mr. Lascelles was a bachelor, and was in the 

*— 1865— John Blackbukn, Esq., Solicitor, of Leeds, who for twenty- 
nine years had filled most ably and impartially the ancient, important, and 
honourable office of coroner for the borough, died at his residence Allerton 
Lodge, Moor Allerton, near Leeds, on the 10th of May, 1865, in the 60th 
year of his age. The announcement was received with sincere regret by the 
inhabitants of the borough, who for many years had been accustomed to 
look upon the deceased gentleman as one of the most eminent coroners of 
whom the country could boast, and whose learning in that branch of juris- 
prudence applicable to his public duties was not surpassed by any of his 
contemporaries. In the course of his experience in that capacity it may be 
easily supposed that in such an extensive borough as Leeds, he had from 
time to time to conduct investigations which required the exercise of great 
patience and sagacity ; and it is well known that some of the preliminary 
inquiries presided over by him have led to proceedings in the criminal courts 
which will long be memorable in this country. As a private practitioner 
Mr. Blackburn enjoyed a good position, and we are sure that his family had 
the earnest sympathy of his numerous clients, as well as of the authorities 
and people of Leeds generally. His death was not unexpected, because for 
some time past it had been evident to his friends that his constitution was 
gradually becoming more debilitated. "For several weeks prior to his 
decease he had been unable to attend to his judicial duties, and during that 
period his son, Mr. A. W. Blackburn, had acted as his deputy with complete 
satisfaction to the juries and all parties concerned. The deceased gentleman 
was interred at Moortown Church. He was succeeded as coroner by Geo. 
Atkinson Emsley, Esq. See Mercury, Intelligencer, Law ■Times, &c. 

—1865— Jos. Prince Garlick, Esq., one of the oldest and most respected 
surgeons in Leeds, died June 6th, 1865. Mr. Garlick took an active part in 
establishing the Leeds Public Dispensary, and was one of the surgeons of 
the institution from its opening in 1824, to the summer of 1852. He*acted 
for twenty-five years as secretary of the West Biding Medical Charitable 
Society, a society in which he took the warmest interest, and not one of the 
annual meetings of which he ever failed to attend. He was also for many 
years lecturer on various subjects (anatomy, physiology, and finally surgery) 
in the Leeds School of Medicine. Mr. Garlick was a warm supporter of 
several religious associations. For several years he acted as local president 



602 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIEKSI8. 

66th year of his age, having, according to Burke's Peerage, 
&c, been born on the 25th of December, 1799. He was the 
fourth son of the second Earl of Harewood, brother to tho 
late or third Earl, and uncle to the present or fourth Earl. 
Mr. Lascelles graduated at All Soul's College, Oxford, B.C.L. 
in 1826, and D.C.L. in 1831. He was called to the bar 
at the Inner Temple in 1826, but he only followed his 
profession (in the Northern Circuit) for a very short time. 
He was a deputy-lieutenant of the "West Riding magis- 
trates, and he was one of the parliamentary representatives 
for Eipon, from 1846 to 1857. He was also the chairman 
of the West Eiding Conservative Association, and took a 
leading part on behalf of the conservatives at all elections. 
Many times was he solicited to allow himself to be put in 
nomination for the West Eiding, but he a] ways declined 
the honour. He was a bright ornament to the West 
Eiding magistracy, and his sudden death was sincerely 
regretted by all his brother magistrates. No man perhaps 
ever discharged the duties of the chairmanship of the justices 
with more clearness of judgment united with suavity of 
conduct, and his legal knowledge was with advantage 
brought to bear upon many judicial cases heard before the 
court of Quarter Sessions, as was also his thorough under- 
standing of what is known as the business of the riding. He 
was a generous, kind-hearted man ; and in manly figure and 
deportment, and in general bearing to all classes, he appeared 
the type of an English country gentleman. In the circle in 
which he moved, and in the public offices which he filled, 
his death left a marked vacancy. The Harewood, the 
Wharncliffe, and other noble families were placed in mourning. 
See Leeds Worthies, page 394, &c. 

1797-1865. 

HAMER. STANSFELD, ESQ., LP., 

A gentleman who long filled a prominent position, both as a 
public man and a private merchant, in Leeds,. died at Ilkley, 
in this county, on Friday, June 9th, 1865. Mr. Hamer 
Stansfeld, who was the son of David Stansfeld, of Leeds, 
merchant, and brother to the late Thos. Wolrich Stansfeld, of 

of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and as secretary to the Bible Society. 
He was also a trustee of St. G-eorge's Church, and of St. Stephen's, 
Burmantofts. Jos. P. G ax-lick, Esq., of 42, Park Square, M.R.C.S., and 
L.S.A., 1817, P. R.C.S., Eng., (Hon.) 1844; w,as late senior surgeon of 
the Leeds Dispensary. See also the Leeds Intel., &c. 



HAMEB, STANSFELD, ESQ., J.P. 603 

Burley Wood, and James Stansfeld, Esq., of Halifax, was born 
in 1797, (See Leeds Worthies, p. 175,) and was for many years 
one of the leading mercantile men in this town, and also long 
took an active part in many of the public affairs of this borough. 
In 1842, during the plug-drawing riots, he was energetic in his 
endeavours to put down that foolish and mischievous move- 
ment, and gave, in writing, some sensible advice to the working 
classes on that occasion. In 1 843, he was elected Mayor, and 
for several years he was one of the most active of our 
borough magistrates; he was also on the commission of the 
peace for the West Hiding. He was a warm advocate of the 
principles of free trade, and during the year of his mayoralty 
he presided at the first public meeting in Leeds, in furtherance 
of the fund of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was also at 
that time a declared supporter of household suffrage for the 
elective franchise; but for several years we are not aware that 
he lifted up his voice, or made any other effort in favour of 
that principle ; perhaps his views, like those of many others, 
became tempered by time. He was a zealous advocate of 
state-assisted education ; and we believe that the last public 
meeting at which he took any considerable part, if not the 
last public meeting he attended in Leeds, was one held in the 
area of the Coloured Cloth Hall Yard, to support such edu- 
cation against the voluntaryism of Mr. Edward Baines and 
others. At that meeting, we understand, he got so severe 
a cold that it permanently affected his general health. For 
several years past, having retired from business and public 
life, he had lived in retirement, chiefly at his residence at 
Highfield, Windermere, but partly at Ben Bhydding, Ilkley, 
of which hydropathic establishment Mr. H. Stansfeld was a 
great promoter, and at the inauguration banquet of which he 
presided in 1844. He held strongly some peculiar notions on 
currency, being a great advocate of paper money, and he 
repeatedly put forward his ideas on that subject in the public 
journals. In religion Mr. Stansfeld was a Unitarian, and he 
laid the foundation stone of the new Mill Hill Chapel, in this 
town, in 1847. At the time of his death he was in his 69th 
year. He died at Ilkley, but was interred in Westmorland.* 
The funeral took place on the Thursday following, and the 
great bell at our Town Hall was tolled on the solemn 
occasion. 

* Mr. Stansfeld's residence was at Highfield, Windermere, and at the time 
of his death, he was visiting Ilkley for the benefit of his health. To Ilkley 
he had a strong attachment, and was a frequent visitor. He was a firm 



604 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

1809—1865. 

EEY. JABEZ TUNNICLIFF, 

Minister of Call Lane Chapel, Leeds, and founder of the 
" Band of Hope " in England, died June 15th, 1865, aged 57. 
His father, Mr. John Tunnicliff, had a family of twenty-two 
children, and was a boot and shoe maker at Wolverhampton. 
The subject of this brief Sketch was born on the 7th February,. 
1809, and under the christian influence of his parents he was 
held back from evil ways in early youth. At 14 years of age 
he was apprenticed to the business of a japanner. The 
associations of a Sabbath school were in some measure a 
check on the influences of his companions, who with one 
exception all fell into gross offences. From the age of 1 7 his 
religious impressions kept him from sin. He became a 
Sunday school teacher, and attended the Independent Chapel. 
In course of time light sprung up in darkness, until he found 
the hand stretched out to save him, when he felt the unfailing 
mercy of God ; which gives eternal life with a free heart to 
every one who believes. After the light had dawned upon 
him he became restless to join the ministry, and felt far 

believer in the efficacy of hydropathy, from which many years ago, while 
visiting on the Continent, he derived much benefit, and was afterwards in a 
great measure the cause of the introduction of the system to Ilkley. He 
was one of the first *tnd principal shareholders in the establishment of Ben 
Rhydding, at the opening of which, in 1844, he was the president at a 
banquet given by the shareholders to a distinguished party of friends. Mr. 
Stansfeld was a member of a very old Yorkshire family, which for many 
generations has held a position of influence in the county. The present 
junior M.P. for Halifax, Mr. James Stansfeld, is his nephew. In religion 
Mr. Hamer Stansfeld was a Unitarian, and laid the foundation stone of the 
beautiful chapel at Mill Hill, Leeds, in 1847. In politics he was a sincere 
liberal. Although his connection with Leeds ceased many years ago, his 
former position and influence in that town are not forgotten. For a long 
period after the passing of the Municipal Reform Act he rendered good 
service to that borough as a member of the corporation, being one of the 
first bench of aldermen elected. He was also in the same year placed upon 
the commission of the peace for the borough, and subsequently was 
appointed a magistrate for the West Riding. In 1843 he was elected chief 
magistrate of the borough, and during the year of his mayoralty presided 
at the first meeting held in Leeds in furtherance of the Anti-Corn Law League 
Fund, when subscriptions were handed in giving a total of £2110. A warmer 
advocate of free trade the borough did not possess, and he was always in 
the van of local movements for the advancement of political reform. On 
the suffrage he held advanced views, and in 1837 became president of the 
Leeds Household Suffrage Association. For some years before his death he 
had, partly owing to failing health, retired both from business as a merchant 
and from political prominence, but he nevertheless now and then until some 
short time before his death gave publicity to letters on the currency question, 
to the study of which he devoted much attention. 



REV. JABEZ TUNNICLIFE. 605 

more pleasure in giving christian exhortations at the Sunday 
school, and in the neighbouring villages, than attending to 
his trade of japanning. He became a village preacher 
before he was 19 years of age, and was somewhat popular 
through his youth and ready and lively utterances. He com- 
menced his first regular ministrations at the Baptist Chapel 
at Shiffnal in the county of Salop, on the 22nd of November, 
1829. He soon had a good Sunday school, and was zealous 
in preaching the gospel. He next accepted a call to preside 
over the Baptist Chapel at Cradley, in November, 1832. He 
entered on his labours at this place with great zeal, and 
proved himself an heroic christian pastor. He removed to 
Longford in 1835, and went heart and soul into his christian 
work, preaching not only at that place, but for miles round. 
He succeeded in establishing branch churches at Bedworth 
and Sowe, and his labours as a pastor were most untiring 
and greatly blessed. After being at Longford seven years, 
he was engaged by the General Baptist Home Missionary 
Society to establish an interest in Leeds, in connection with 
that denomination. In 1843 he removed from the Stone 
Chapel, in St, Peter's Street, to Byron Street Chapel.. 
During his ministry at the latter place he adopted teetotalism, 
and became a very earnest and successful advocate of the 
temperance cause. On January 6th, 1845, he was appointed 
registrar of the Dissenters' portion of the Burmantofts 
Cemetery. In 1847 he ceased to labour for the Home Mis- 
sionary Society, and proceeded to establish a preaching house 
in Templar Street. It was in this year that he formed and 
organized the Band of Hope ; and he never relaxed his zeal 
to spread temperance principles. A Band of Hope Society 
was formed, of which he became president. He spent a 
great deal of his time in composing melodies and adapting 
them to popular and lively airs ; visiting schools, and holding 
weekly meetings, until the good work spread rapidly in the 
town, and has since become a vast and useful organization in 
various parts of England. He left Templar Street, and for 
nearly two years ministered at the Baptist Chapel at Hunslet. 
In July, 1850, he became the minister of Call Lane Chapel, 
and held the appointment until his death. He was a most 
useful and indefatigable preacher, and was remarkable for 
his earnestness, piety, and pathos. As a citizen he was 
characterised by his great love of order, his intense zeal in 
promoting and improving the social and provident habits of 
the working population. But his great reputation will go 



606 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

down to posterity as the "Founder of the Band of Hope"* an 
institution which probably more than any other in existence, 
will be found able to grapple with the vice of intemperance. 
He was interred at the Burmantofts Cemetery on Sunday the 
18th of June, in the presence of about 15,000 persons. 

1798—1885. 
MR. GEOEGE LINLEY, 

The popular musical composer and art critic, died in London, 
September 10th, 1865, at the age of 67 years. He was a 
native of Leeds, and was born in Briggate, in 1798. His 
first education was received in a well known Quaker's school, 
kept by Joshua Eastbury, where he was well known to Mr. 
Robert Barr and other school companions. He left his native 
town early in life, settled in London, and soon distinguished 
himself as a sweet melodist, and a popular song composer. 
His aptitude in exercising those gifts of versification and 
satire, which he possessed to the very last, was exhibited in 
early youth by several very smart verses and brochures, the 
publication of which brought him, like Shakspeare, into dis- 
favour with some of the magnates of the town and neighbour- 
hood. The ability which they displayed, however, was 
generally recognised and admitted, and George Linley was 
regarded with anticipations of future excellence and distinction 
by many of his fellow townsmen, whose expectations were 
not disappointed. It is within the mark to aifirm that Mr. 

* The Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff, of Leeds, whose name must ever be honourably 
associated with the first " Band of Hope," was called to his heavenly reward 
on the 15th of June, 1865. We feel assured (said the Band of Hope Review 
for April 2nd, 1866), that thousands of our readers will be glad to possess a 
portrait of this unwearied and talented labourer in the cause of temperance. 
About 5000 copies of this No. with portrait, were given away on Good Friday, 
1866, to the members of the Leeds Band of Hope. Considerable discussion 
has taken place, as to who first suggested the name of " Band of Hope," 
whether Mr. Tunnicliff, or Mrs. Carlile, of Dublin. As Mrs. Carlile's claim 
to this honour has been published in our pages, we feel that it is but justice 
to our departed friend, Mr. Tunnicliff, to give the following extract from 
his narration of the origin of the movement, which was published by him 
in the Band of Hope Annual for 1*65 : — " A very excellent Irish lady, Mrs. 
Carlile, of Dublin, visited the town of Leeds (in 1847,) for the purpose of 
addressing children in our day-schools, on the subject of Temperance. She 
had a tender and a loving heart, and her gentle but earnest manner of speak- 
ing, excited their attention, and induced many of them to promise never to 
touch intoxicating drinks. It was my privilege to be her companion in her 
visits, and from what I saw and heard, I felt sure that all her labours would 
soon be lost, unless something was done at once to follow up her work, and 
keep the subject of her visits continually before the minds of the children, 
and I determined without any further delay, to start the movement which 
had occupied my mind since the death I have already referred to. — (An 



MR. GEORGE LINLEY. 607 

Linley wrote the words and music of more English ballads 
than an}' other composer, and it is not too much to say many 
of these obtained, and have retained, unprecedented popu- 
larity. Amongst the most popular of the hundreds Linley 
composed may be mentioned — " Thou art gone from my gaze," 
" Little Nell," " I cannot mind my wheel, mother," " Con- 
stance," "Ever of thee," &c. Linley also wrote two or 
three operas, which were produced with considerable success 
in London. As to the Entertainments ("Mary Queen of 
Scots," &c), poems, pamphlets, criticisms, satires, &c, they 
are almost beyond enumeration from their number and 
variety. His last poem, "The Showman," finished but a 
short time before his death, is still unpublished, but will, we 
believe, be included in the complete collection of his poems, 
which he had very nearly ready for publication when death 
stayed his busy hand and brain. Linley was a kind-hearted, 
generous man, a true friend, and a genial, merry companion. 
He hated humbug with a mortal hatred, under whatever 
shape it appeared. It was this feeling that led him to be so 
severe in his celebrated Satire, " Musical Cynics, " in which 
Linley roughly handled those critics of the metropolitan press 
whom he considered ignorant of the true principles of the 
art about which they were employed to write. In all art, 

affecting death of a Sunday School Teacher, who had been led astray, and 
who, in his last moments, said to Mr. Tunnicliff, "warn young men against 
the first Glass!" ) On the morning of Mrs. Carlile's departure from Leeds, 
several friends of the temperance cause, chiefly ladies, met at the house of 
a gentleman (James Hotham, Esq.), since called up to his reward, after a 
short, but earnest and useful life. I proposed that we should at once form 
our first committee, and arrange for our first meeting ; and as our only hope 
of making the world sober, was in getting the children on our side, it would 
be a suitable thing to call them, when formed into a society, "The Band of 
Hope." All present were delighted with the idea, and entered heartily into 
a work which has since spread all over our land, and given you a name of 
which you may be proud, and a future, if you are true to your pledge, which 
will bless the world in which you live, and save you from many a sorrow 
and many a sin. The first meeting was a glorious gathering. Three hundred 
children sat down to tea, and nearly the whole of them that night took the 
pledge. The first boy, I find from the record of that meeting, who took it, 
was John Mitchell, No. 3, Coach Lane, Cornhill, Leeds, aged twelve years." 
To Leeds, without question, belongs the honour of having established the 
first "Band of Hope," a movement which has now extended to the distant 
parts of the world. May we not in future regard the Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff as 
the fathee, and Mrs. Carlile as the mother, of this great juvenile move- 
ment, and thus meet the feelings of the friends of both these devoted, and now 
sainted, friends of the rising generation? The Memoir of Mr. Tunnicliff has 
been published for the benefit of his widow, and we would urge our temperance 
friends to promote its circulation. — For additional particulars see "The 
Life and Labours of the Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff, collected and arranged by 
the Rev. H. Maries, L.R.C.P.," published by W. Tweedie; Job Cauawell, 
London. A. Mann, and B. Summersaill, Leeds. Price 3s. 6d. 



608 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

especially in music, he preferred soul, feeling, and taste, to 
pedantic knowledge and automatic mechanism, however won- 
derful and brilliant. He was not a profound musician, but 
his melodies will live in the hearts of thousands long after 
this generation shall have passed away. Mr. Linley died 
peacefully, after a long and trying illness, in the full pos- 
session of his intellect, and knowledge of his approaching 
dissolution. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery on 
Friday, Sept. 15th, 1865, being followed to the grave, as 
mourners and old friends, by Mr. Robert Addison, Mr. Geo. 
Metzler, Mr. Thomas Blake, Signer Ferrari, &c. Mr. Linley 
left a widow, two sons, and a daughter to mourn his loss. 
One of his sons holds an excellent Government appointment. 
The absence of the happy face and wit of George Linley from 
many a gathering of musical and literary men in London will 
be long felt as a loss not easily supplied. — See Mayhall's 
Annals of Yorkshire, vol. ii., the Leeds papers for Sept. 15th, 
1865, the Athenmum, for Sept., 1865, p. 413, &c. 

-1865.* 

THE EEY. JOSHUA HAET, B.A.,f 

Vicar of Otley, near Leeds, died suddenly Oct. 15th, 1865. 
Mr. Hart being slightly unwell had been at Eedcar for the 
sake of a little rest and to resuscitate his health / from whence 
he returned the Friday previous, apparently much improved. 
He rose on Sunday morning, as was his usual practice, at six 
o'clock, and after spending an hour in his study, returned to 
his room to dress. He was suddenly seized with apoplexy, 
from which he never rallied, and expired about half-past 
twelve o'clock. It was his intention to preach both morning 
and evening in the parish church, where for twenty-eight 

* For an account of the Rev. F. T. Rowell, M.A., the first Vicar of St. 
Stephen's, Burmantofts, Leeds, who died of fever, caught in the discharge of 
his duties, Oct. 12th, 1865, aged 42 years, to whom a stained glass window 
has recently been erected, and whose Memoirs and Sermons are about to be 
published by his widow. — See the Leeds Intell, &c, for Oct., 1865, &c. 

For a long account of the death of the Rev. A. J. Brameld, the first Vicar 
of New Wortley, Leeds, who was accidentally drowned at Scarborough, see 
the Leeds Intel, for Nov. 25th, 1865 ; and for a much longer account of his 
funeral and family, &c, see the Leeds Intel, for Dec. 2nd, 1865, &c. 

+ Rev. Joshua Hart, Queen's Coll. Camb. B.A., 1835; Deac. 1836. Pr. 
1837, both by Bishop of Chester ; Vicar of Otley, dio. Bipon, 1837. Patron, 
Lord Chancellor. Income, £250 and house. Author, "The Barren Fig 
Tree," Walker, Otley; "The Widow of Nain," (sermons in words of one 
syllable,) ib., 2s. 6d. per doz. Several separate " Sermons ;" "Short Prayers 
for Families," Is., &c. 



MR. JOSHUA MAJOR. 609 

years he had faithfully preached the gospel. Though de- 
votedly attached to the Church, he lived on the best terms 
with all sects and parties in his large parish. He took a 
warm interest in the Mechanics' Institute, and in every society 
which could promote the welfare of his parishioners, and his 
death was deeply deplored by all. On the Monday following 
a meeting was held to consider how his parishioners could 
best show their respect to his memory, at which it was agreed 
that the funeral should be a public one, and that the expenses 
should be borne by subscription. 

1787—1866. 

ME. JOSHUA MAJOE, 

Landscape gardener, of Knostrop, near Leeds, died in January, 
1866. Mr. Major held a prominent position in his profession, 
and was the author of several valuable works. In 1829 he 
published a work entitled "A Treatise on Insects must preva- 
lent on Fruit Trees ;" in 1852, " The Theory and Practice of 
Landscape Gardening," an important work, which met with 
high and deserved encomiums from the public press ; and in 
1861, (with the assistance of his son Henry, who succeeded 
him,) "The Ladies' Assistant in the Formation of their 
Flower Gardens," a work designed expressly to meet the 
prevailing taste for the bedding out, or grouping style. He 
was also a frequent contributor to the Gardener 1 8 Magazine, 
under the conductorship of that eminent man, Mr. J. C. 
Loudon, who highly appreciated his plans and papers on 
landscape gardening, and other subjects. Mr. Major delighted 
in works of philanthropy. He assisted in the formation of 
the first Sunday School in the town of Leeds, of which he 
was superintendant for many years. In all religious and 
charitable institutions he took great interest, and actively 
promoted them. His personal qualities were of a high order. 
He was of a cheerful disposition, simple in his tastes and 
habits, and impressed all who had the good fortune to know 
him as a thoroughly kind hearted and estimable man. He 
was highly appreciated by his workmen; as an evidence of 
this, six of them served him 50, 42, 40, 32, 29, and 20 years 
respectively. After upwards of half a century devoted to 
his profession, with an ardour and perseverance rarely 
equalled, he died at the advanced age of 79 years. See the 
Leeds Intel., for Feb. 3, 1866, &c. 



610 BIOGRAPHTA LEODIENSIS. 

1803—1856. 

MES. ELIZA CEAYEN GEEEN, 

Poetess, of Meanwood Street, Little London, Leeds, died 
March 11th, 1866, aged 63 years. The name of Eliza 
Craven Green will be familiar to our readers, as she was for 
many years a frequent poetical contributor to the columns of 
the Leeds Intelligencer, in which, it seems, from the following 
plaintive lines, written a short time ago in anticipation of this 
journal passing into other hands and being published daily, 
a production of her muse was first enshrined in print : — 

"AULD LANG SYNE!" 

"All, all are gone, the old familiar faces." 

Full fifty years have past and flown, 
Since first my lyre essay'd its tone ; 
Or rather, since I first saw clear 
In type, to youthful poets dear, 
The" first fresh printed rhyme of mine 
Within this very joiunal shine ! 
Since then full oft my verse has been 
Within its constant pages seen ; 
And oft, perchance, my early rhyme 
Has led some poet soul to climb 
Parnassus Hill, and win a fame 
That ne'er has graced my humble name, 
Since here for half a century's space 
My varied thoughts have found a place. 
But now our occupation's o'er, 
The old familiar page no more 
Will bear my name — the lyric strain, 
Forgotten, ne'er may wake again ; 
'Twere idle on this now to dwell, 
In kindness part, old friend — Farewell ! 

Eliza Craven Green. 

We give these lines as pertinent to the occasion, and not as 
an example of Mrs. Green's poetry, which at all times, what- 
ever the measure, and on whatever subject, was respectable, 
often very graceful, marked by sweet imagery, replete with 
true and noble sentiments, and never disfigured by imperfect 
rhythm or careless grammar. For several years Mrs. Green, 
both in her own name and under two or three assumed ones, 
has been an admired writer of prose (chiefly tales and 
sketches) and poetry, in Le Follet* and some other periodicals ; 

*"We record (says Le Fottet, for April, 1866), with sincere regret, the 
death of our valued contributor, Eliza Craven Green. Since the first number 
of this journal appeared in an English dress, now nearly twenty years ago, 



MR. BARNETT BLAKE. 611 

and in 1858 she published a volume of poetry, under the 
title of " Sea Weeds and Heath Flowers, or Memoirs of 
Mona," which met with a very favourable reception, and has 
recently reached a second edition. Though a native of 
Leeds, where she has lived the greater part of her life, and 
where she has died, she appears to have had a strong at- 
tachment to the Isle of Man, and many of the poems in the 
volume alluded to, including a rather lengthy and highly 
meritorious composition, entitled "A Legend of Mona," some 
pensive verses on "Elian Yannin," (the vernacular appellation 
for the Isle of Man), are great favourites with all classes of 
persons in that island. We understand that she has left 
several compositions which have not yet been published; for 
she was a very industrious writer, and of so modest a disposi- 
tion that she did little to bring her literary labours before the 
public. She moved in a comparatively humble sphere of life, 
and was little known in literary circles ; but a few years ago 
the Queen was made acquainted with her merits, and Her 
Majesty, we understand, made her a handsome gift from the 
royal purse. Though declining in health for the last few years, 
the death of Mrs. Green was quite unexpected by her family. 
She was very cheerful on the Saturday, but during the night 
she suddenly became ill, and died very calmly early on the 
Sunday morning. She was much beloved by her family, and 
by all who were acquainted with her intellectual and social 
qualities, and to all such her death will be a source of sincere 
sorrow. See the Leeds Intel., &c. 

1812—1866. 

ME. BAENETT BLAKE, 

Agent and Lecturer for the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' 
Institutes, died of typhus fever on Wednesday afternoon, 
March 14th, 1866, aged 54, at his residence Highfield House, 
Beeston Boyds, near Leeds. Mr. Blake was seized with 

Mrs. Craven G-reen has been a constant contributor to its pages. To the 
merit of the graceful poetical effusions from her pen, which have from time 
to time adorned our columns, the public press have borne sufficient testi- 
mony. But, even if such were not the case, it would scarcely be within our 
province in this place to dilate upon their excellencies. After quoting the 
opinion (given above) of a well-known and highly respected provincial 
contemporary, the Leeds Intelligencer, the writer proceeds to say that 
" The Hawthorn Bough in the Workroom/' published in our Number for 
July, 1856, was so much approved of by the fair workers in several large 
firms, that they spontaneously united to present to its authoress a simple but 
expressive testimonial of their admiration and esteem. "The Return of 
Florence Nightingale," in the same year, elicited from the esteemed and 
benevolent lady who was the theme of it, a graceful note of acknowledge- 



612 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

illness about nine days' previously ; but his death was heard 
of with feelings of surprise even by his most intimate friends. 
He had the advantage of the professional skill of Mr. Claude 
Wheelhouse, who attended him from the beginning of his 
illness ; but in the ceaseless activity which characterised his 
life he found the greatest hinderance to his recovery ; and 
that, aiding the disease, at length completely prostrated him. 
From the annual report of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' 
Institutes for 1856, we learn, said the Leeds Mercury, that in 
March of that year Mr. Blake was appointed secretary to 
that association on the resignation of Mr. Phillips. He had 
at that time long been connected with Mechanics' Institutes — 
was indeed a leading member of the Southwark Literary and 
Scientific Institution twenty years previously. From 1 843 to 
1852 he was editor of the Exeter Gazette, and during five years 
of that period secretary of the Exeter Literary and Scientific 
Institution. He was also a member of the Council of the 
Western Literary Union, comprising all the literary societies 
in Devon and Cornwall. From the date of his leaving 
Exeter to that of his appointment as secretary of the York- 
shire Union, he was editor of the Liverpool Standard. He had 
been a successful competitor for several prize essays, and he 
was otherwise known as an author. The report further tells us 
that he was unanimously chosento the office, and that his energy 
and business habits, it was believed, would be of great service 
to the Union. Year after year that service has been acknow- 
ledged at the annual meetings of the association, but it 
is now, perhaps, that its greatness will be truly felt. The 
ability, earnestness, and fidelity which Mr. Blake manifested 
in the discharge of his duties were as remarkable as the 
amount and variety of his labours. As agent and 
lecturer to the Union, he had to travel over the whole of 

ment, in which she assured the writer that her "whole family circle were 
much pleased with the kind and friendly feeling expressed towards her." 
In August, 1863, for the little poem commemorative of the planting of 
the "Heme's Oak," in Windsor Park, by the Queen, the editor of this 
journal was honoured with Her Majesty's acknowledgements and thanks, 
conveyed in a letter written by the late Sir Chas. Phipps. Mrs. Craven 
Green had previously been the recipient of a more substantial token of our 
gracious Sovereign's favour (in the shape of a handsome gift from the Royal 
purse). These facts may appear trivial, but we derive a gratification in 
referring to them, in proof of the estimation in which our late talented con- 
tributor was held by all classes. Not only from her genuine poetical gifts, 
but from her genial and kindly disposition, she won the respect and goodwill 
of all with whom she was in any way associated. By her death we lose an 
esteemed coadjutor, and one whose best services were at all times gracefully 
and readily devoted to the interests of this magazine." 



MR. BARNETT BLAKE. 613 

Yorkshire, to lecture or speak at' the meetings of the 
various institutes when required, and to confer with their 
officers when his advice was needed He took a deep interest 
in the educational department of these institutions, and super- 
intended year after year from their commencement the middle 
class examinations in connection with the Universities of 
Oxford, Cambridge, London and Durham, and those of the 
Society of Arts, all conducted under the auspices of the West 
Eiding Educational Board, of which he was Secretary. One 
of these examinations was, indeed, being carried on during 
his illness, and his absence was severely felt. His connection 
with this educational movement entailed on him an amount 
of labour which is only faintly indicated in the reports of the 
board. His energy and zeal in all the good works in which 
he took a part were aided by eminent abilities. He was a 
fluent, clear and interesting speaker and lecturer. His in- 
formation was extensive, accurate and ready. His conversation 
was most instructive and amusing. His loss will not soon 
cease to be deplored, not only by the institutions whose success 
he was so anxious and able to promote, but by a Jarge circle 
of attached friends. Mr. Blake was married, and has left a 
family. 

The following In Memoriam of Mr. Barnett Make, a name 
familiar to all ranks in Leeds and the neighbourhood, and 
generally known throughout the West Eiding and the North 
of England, was inserted in the Leeds Intell. for March 1 7th, 
1866. — Mr. Barnett Blake's position as lecturer to the York- 
shire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, and as one of the 
successful originators and indefatigable promoters of the 
West Eiding Educational Board, and its eminently useful 
examinations in connection with the Universities and the 
Society of Arts, brought him into immediate contact with 
men of every grade. As a lecturer he was incessant and 
fluent in pouring forth from his vast stores of knowledge, 
acquired and retained during many years of extensive and 
varied reading, information of the most valuable character to 
his auditors. Somewhat too impatient in his nature to make 
a good teacher of individuals, he often succeeded admirably in 
laying before his audiences that knowledge which to the great 
majority was complicated and unfamiliar. His constant and 
persevering efforts in the cause of education were not without 
fruit. He was not only one of the chief promoters, but a 
great and active sustainer of the West Eiding Educational 
Board, whose existence and usefulness would have been im- 

QQ 



614 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

perilled but for his arfhious labours in its behalf. He was 
the instrument in bringing before the people of Leeds such 
distinguished persons as the Archbishop of York, the Duke 
of Cleveland, Sir Stafford Northcote, and others, that they 
might hear enunciated from their lips views and lessons on 
education not soon to be forgotten. In politics he was a staunch 
and intelligent conservative, and, mixing with men of widely 
different views, he was ever ready to uphold and defend the 
principles of law and order, and our all but perfect constitution 
of church and state. As a sound and consistent member of 
the Church of England, not, we believe, from early days, but 
as the result of deep study of the Bible and Liturgy in his 
maturer years, he sought to carry out in his daily life her 
teaching and practices. He was a constant, devout, and 
reverent worshipper within her shrines, 'and a liberal and 
generous benefactor to the poor. Wherever his lot was cast 
his unceasing desire and labours were to forward the welfare, 
spiritual, intellectual, and physical, of those about him ; and 
although he had no closer connection with the place in which 
he died (Beeston), than having dwelt in it for three years, 
yet his untiring energies and thoughts, and his latest gifts (of 
a munificent character) were towards the rebuilding of its 
church. Of a zealous, energetic and persevering nature, firm 
and stable in his principles, he entered heartily into any 
cause that commended itself to his mind, and by his self- 
denying labours generally brought it to a successful issue. 
Impatient of all obstacles, he endeavoured to overcome them 
that he might attain his purpose, which was always for the 
good of others. This honest, sincere, hardworking, upright 
man has been taken from his earthly labours, and was interred 
in the church yard of Whitkirk, on Saturday afternoon, 
March 17th, 1866. 

1820—1866. 
THE HON. JUDGE HARGKEAVE, LL.D., F.K.S., 

Died on Monday, April 23rd, 1866. "We announced (said 
the Irish Times), to our great regret, in our evening edition 
of Monday, the demise of the Hon. Chas. Jas. Hargreave, 
LL.D., one of the Judges of the Landed Estates Court.* 

* The Hon. Chas. Jas. Hargreave, LL.D. , F.R.S. , &c. , Judge of the Landed 
Estates Courts in Ireland, (according to the Illus. London News for May, 
5th, 1866,) was one of the most distinguished Equity lawyers and mathema- 
ticians of the day. He was by birth an Englishman,' and was educated at 
University College, London, which he entered in 1836. He was Professor 
of Jurisprudence there from 1843 to 1849. He was called to 



THE HON. JUDGE HAEGREAVE, LL.D., F.R.S. 615 

The illness under which the lamented gentleman suffered was 
protracted, but throughout its continuance he so preserved 
the serenity of his mind and his cheerfulness of temper, that 
hopes were entertained until the last moment of his ultimate 
recovery. Even his medical attendants and most intimate 
friends could hardly believe that a fatal termination could 
ensue to an illness so patiently and cheerfully borne. The 
loss of Judge Hargreave is a public one, and will be regretted 
not merely by his colleagues on the bench, by his friends, by 
the bar, and the suitors in his court, but by men of all creeds 
. and parties. On the tidings of his death reaching Dublin — 
for he had expired at Bray — the business of the court was 
immediately suspended. Even in the Court of Probate, 
where a jury was empanelled for the trial of a most important 
case, the leading "counsel on both sides, the jury and the 
judge, unanimously resolved to suspend the sitting as a 
mark of respect to one who, during his life, was universally 
esteemed and admired for his private worth, his rare talent 
as a lawyer, and his ability as a judge. Judge Hargreave 
was the son of Mr. James Hargreave, of the firm of 
Hargreave and Nussey, cloth merchants, Leeds, and was 
born at Wortley, near Leeds, in December, 1820, and was 
educated at an excellent school, which now, under the 
designation of Bramham CoUege, near Tadcaster, main- 
tains its old reputation, and under the same head master, the 
Rev. Dr. Haigh. At an early age he entered the University 
College, London, where he was a fellow-student with the 
present Judge Keogh, Sir Chas. O'Loghlen, M.P., and other 
eminent men. He obtained the highest honours of the 

the Bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple, June 7th, 1844, and in 
1851, became Queen's Counsel, and a bencher of that Inn, He at the bar 
attained considerable practice and very high note as a conveyancer and an 
Equity counsel. His famed ability led to his being appointed a Commissioner 
for the sale of Irish Encumbered Estates, and when the commission ended in 
the formation of the Landed Estates Court, he was made one of the Judges. 
This selection of Mr. Hargreave, on account of his great legal knowledge, 
and his practical experience in conveyancing, was most fortunate, for he 
fully carried out to the public advantage the very delicate and difficult 
duties of his office. To the knowledge and acumen, the subtle discrimination 
and technical precision of Mr. Hargreave, the Encumbered Estates Court was 
largely indebted, and its mass of business was got through, in a speedy and 
satisfactory manner. During the long period of sixteen years, in which he 
presided in his court, he commanded the respect of every professional gen- 
tleman, by the soundness of his judgment, while he also won their highest 
esteem by the uniform suavity and courtesy of his demeanour. Mr. 
Harereave's own favourite study was mathematical science ; and it is feared 
that in his application to that, in which he also wonderfully excelled, the 
overtasked powers of his brain gave way and led to his regretted demise in 
the very prime of his life and reputation. 



616 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

University,* and took the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and 
afterwards commenced his legal studies as the pupil of the 
celebrated Duval, the most celebrated of the English con- 
veyancers. He became, in course of time. Professor of 
Jurisprudence in the Univ. Coll. Soon after his call to the 
bar, in 1 844, he obtained a distinguished position amongst 
the conveyancers. In 1849, the Incumbered Estates Act 
was passed, and Mr. Hargreave was selected, purely on the 
ground of professional merit, to act as one of the commis- 
sioners. His services in this capacity were sufficiently 
recognised by the public and legal profession, and need not 
be here recounted. He shortly afterwards was called to the 
Inner Bar, and became a bencher of the Inner Temple. In 
the meantime he had continued his mathematical investigations 
— a science to which he was much devoted. He published 
several able papers, some of which were read before the 
Royal Society of London, a society of which he was at an 
early age elected a Eellow. In 1858, when the Incumbered 
Estates Commission was superseded by the present tribunal, 
he was appointed one of the judges of the court, where his 
great learning, singular acuteness, and unvarying patience 
won for him a lasting reputation. In the spring of last year, 
although in somewhat delicate health, he turned his attention 
to a new and very intricate branch of mathematical inquiry. 
His researches have to a great extent been brought under the 
cognizance of some of the first mathematicians both in 
England and L'eland, and we understand that the result of 
those researches is likely soon to appear under the editorship 
of the Rev. Dr. Salmon, E.T.C.D. The intense application 
involved in these abstruse investigations appears to have led 
to the illness which has terminated his distinguished career 
at the premature age of forty-five. Judge Hargreave leaves 
a widow (formerly a Miss Noble, of Leeds), but no family.f 

* From the London University Calendar we find that Chas. Jas. Hargreave 
matriculated in 1838, and that he also passed very high both in classical and 
mathematical honours ; that he took his B. A. in 1840, again passing both in 
classical and mathematical honours, — and that he took his LL.B. in 1813, 
also passing in honours, both in jurisprudence, and conveyancing. 

t Though not extensively known in his native county, the deceased gentle- 
man belonged to that class of persons who alone deserve to be denominated 
"Yorkshire Worthies." By untiring industry and extraordinary mental 
capacity, aided by a solid and liberal education, the lamented judge became 
the architect of his own fortune ; and to whatever honourable position he 
aspired, carried with him the most transcendant qualifications and ability 
for office. He was a Christian philanthropist, an amiable and respected 
citizen, and a genuine scholar. As such he has bequeathed to his own name 
a lasting reputation, and to his native county a further addition to the 
dignified number of its most honoured and distinguished sons. 



THE HON. JUDGE HARGREAVE, LL.D., F.R.S. 617 

The remains of Judge Hargreave were interred at Wood- 
house Cemetery, Leeds, on Saturday, April 28th, 1866, The 
funeral left the residence of Mr. Joseph Nussey, Fawcett 
House, Wortley, at eleven o'clock. — See the Leeds Mercury, 
&c, for April 27th, 1866. 

The following sketch of his professional career and legal 
acquirements is from the pen of one of his colleagues in the 
court (Judge Longfield), who had peculiar opportunities 
during sixteen years of estimating his worth : — " His intellect 
was especially adapted for mathematics and for the more 
scientific branches of law. Accordingly, he selected the law 
of real property to be his peculiar business, and became, 
first, a pupil of Mr. Greening, and afterwards of Mr. Duval, 
both eminent conveyancers in London. He was also for a 
short time in a solicitor's office in London. He was called to 
the bar by the Inner Temple in 1844, and very rapidly 
obtained a high reputation and increasing practice. The 
eminent conveyancer Mr. Christie had the highest opinion of 
him, and frequently described him as the best qualified person 
in England for the important office which at a very early age 
he was called upon to fill. He was appointed one of the 
commissioners for sale of incumbered estates in Ireland, in 
1849, before he had arrived at his 29th birth-day. He 
entered upon the duties of his office with great zeal, and 
devoted the summer with his colleagues to the preparation of 
a code of rules and practice for the new court. Those rules 
were so well adapted to their object that they continue in 
force to this day, with very trifling alterations. It is to be 
borne in mind that Mr. Hargreave's practice had been 
confined to the chambers of a conveyancer, and that he had 
had no experience touching the rules and practice of Courts 
of Equity. Nevertheless, he showed the greatest readiness 
in comprehending the spirit and effects of every rule, and he 
exerted himself to ensure that no rule should be wanted, that 
was necessary for the protection of the suitor or the public, 
but that no unnecessary rules should add delay and expense 
to the proceedings in the suit. His advice and opinion on 
every point relating to the practice of conveyance were always 
received with considerable deference. The proceedings of the 
court after the rules were published, consisted of two different 
branches. There was the perusal of abstracts of title, the 
settlement of deeds, and the determination of their con- 
struction and the rights of the parties. This was the con- 
veyancer's proper department, and he executed it with great 



618 BIOGBAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

skill and industry. He was a neat and accurate draughtsman, 
and very felicitous in finding proper forms of expression. 
He omitted nothing, and repeated nothing. His forms were 
equally free from prolixity and ambiguity. The- next great 
branch of business was the decision of causes after argument. 
Here he was without experience. It may be said that his 
first experience in a court of justice was to preside in it as 
judge. But no person could observe any deficiency. His 
patience, his learning, and his impartiality quickly secured 
the respect and confidence of the practitioners in his court, 
and his unequalled sweetness of temper made him a general 
favorite. Although of a nervous and sensitive temperament, 
nothing seemed to irritate him . He acted on all occasions 
with great firmness, persisting in selling estates according to 
his own judgment, when he might have secured his own ease 
and safety and apparent popularity, by refusing to sell at the 
only prices that could then be obtained. But he was most in 
his element when an unusual combination of circumstances 
and complicated deeds seemed to produce inextricable con- 
fusion. His habits of order and his fine mathematical mind 
at once arranged the rights of the parties with a certainty 
approaching mathematical demonstration. He never seemed 
happier than when he was engaged in a subtle mathematical 
analysis, or in determining the rights arising from a deed 
when every event occurred except those Contemplated by the 
•conveyancer who drew the instrument. But he is no more. 
And for the good feeling and discernment of the Irish it must 
be said, that they loved and honoured him while he was living, 
and deeply lamented him when he was removed." 

The following, from the pen of his friend and fellow- 
student, Mr. J. Waley, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn (who 
succeeded him in the Professorship at University College) 
will also be read with interest: — " My recollections of 
Hargreave begin with a " Prize-Day " at University College, 
London, on which he — then very young — was singled out by 
Professor De Morgan for praise beyond all the rest of the 
class at University College ; and on graduating at the 
University of London, he was a very successful student, 
distinguishing himself in classics as well as Mathematics, 
though his special excellence lay in the latter. We were 
afterwards fellow-pupils in the chambers of the late Mr. 
Duval, who has had a share in the training of many 
distinguished lawyers of the past and present generations. 
The acute eye of the great conveyancer almost immediately 



THE HON. JUDGE HAEGEEAVE, LL.D., F.R.S. 619 

discovered Hargreave's merit. He was, even before he was 
out of his pupilage, exact, ready and full of law. I 
remember, for example, that it was desired to confer on 
the tenant for life of a great estate, the power of accepting 
surrenders of leases for lives and granting in their place leases 
for terms of years certain. Hargreave maintained that the 
only equivalence possible between a lease for lives and a lease 
for years was equality in money value, while Mr. Duval 
thought that some comparison founded upon the probabilities 
of life, and expressed in terms of time, should be adopted. 
The point was mentioned to Professor De Morgan, whose view 
confirmed that taken by Hargreave. From the time that 
Hargreave went to Ireland, I of course ceased to be in 
habitual intercourse with him, though we remained on terms 
of friendly intimacy until his lamented death. To the 
eminent qualities which distinguished him as a judge, others 
more within the scope of their action can better than myself 
bear testimony. The patience, assiduity and learning, the 
moderation and love of justice, which invariably distinguished 
him, were, no doubt, important elements in the success of the 
great legal and social experiment which was worked out by 
means of the Incumbered Estates Court. Reverting to my 
own personal experience, if I were to state my impression of 
Hargreave as a lawyer, I should say that he was singularly 
clear, full and exact, quick and inventive, and, at the same 
time, very judicious and discriminating — and applying the 
great acuteness which was native to his mind, not in subtle 
reasonings or refined conclusions, but in aid of a sound 
common sense and spirit of fairness. I must also pay a 
passing tribute to his singularly amiable and equable temper, 
to the kindness and gentleness of his disposition. During the 
many years that we were in close association, never, I think, 
have I seen him for a moment irritated or vexed, never have 
I heard him say an angry or unkind word to or of anyone." 
Although Judge Hargreave is likely to be well-known as a 
mathematician, yet precedence has been given in this sketch to 
his legal career, because, in truth, law was the business of 
his life, and mathematics the relaxation with which he filled 
up the intervals of ofiicial labour. And it is to be feared 
that his premature death must be imputed to his having 
chosen as his principal recreation, one which only substituted 
one form of mental labour for another, and which gave his 
brain scarcely any rest from continuous exertion. One of his 
earliest Essays is that by which he is best known, viz. that on 



620 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIEFSIS. 

the " Solution of Linear Differential Equations," which was 
published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1848, and to 
which was awarded one of the Royal Medals of the Royal 
Society. Shortly after the publication of this paper he was 
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The other papers 
which he contributed to the Phil. Trans, were " On General 
Methods in Analysis for the Resolution of Linear Equations 
in Finite Differences and Linear Differential Equations," 
Phil. Trans. 1850, p. 261; and " On the Problem of Three 
Bodies," 1858. He also contributed the following papers to 
the London and Edinburgh Philos. Mag. — "Notes on the Solu- 
tion of Differential Equations," 1847, p. 8; "Analytical 
Researches Concerning Numbers," 1849, p. 36; "On the 
Valuation of Life Contingencies," 1853, p. 39; "On the 
Application of the Calculus of Operations to Algebraical 
Expressions and Theorems," p. 351 ; " On the Law of Prime 
Numbers," 1854, p 114; "On Differential Equations of the 
First Order," 1864, p. 355. The honorary degree of LL.D. 
was conferred on him by the University of Dublin in 1852, 
in company with Professor Boole, a mathematician also too 
early lost to science. 

A few months before his death Judge Hargreave's attention 
was attracted by the problem which forms the subject of the 
"Essay on the Resolution of Algebraic Equations," edited 
by Dr. Salmon, of Trin. Coll. Dub., and printed for private 
circulation, and which, humanly speaking, may be regarded 
as the cause of his death. For some time previously he had 
not enjoyed robust health, and his friends had, on this 
account, frequently endeavoured to withdraw him from the 
mathematical investigations which seemed to form his favor- 
ite occupation during the intervals of court business. Their 
efforts, however, were in vain, and he sacrificed all relaxation, 
and even sleep, to the study of this problem, which strongly 
excited his interest. Over-exertion of the brain brought on 
an illness, of which he died at Bray, County Wicklow, on the 
23rd of April, 1866.* 

*The Athenceum for April 28, 1866, in noticing the death of this gentleman, 
states that : — "At thebar he acquired the reputation of a sound Equity lawyer, 
and was selected as one of the Commissioners of Landed Estates in Ireland, 
a post which gave him the title of judge when the court was permanently 
constituted. He died of the results of brain fever, brought on, it is too 
much to be feared, by intense application to a mathematical subject presently 
to be mentioned. As a judge he was highly respected: he was of very 
diminutvve height, so short, indeed, that though not what would be called a 
dwarf, his stature might have stood in his way, if he had not had a very 
decided force of talent and a conquering energy of character. As long ago 



JOHN SMITH, ESQ., J.P. 621 

1797-1866.* 
JOHN SMITH, ESQ., J.P. 

We announce with sincere regret (said the Leeds Mercury) the 
death of Mr. Smith, of Burley House, Leeds. This event 
took place on Sunday night, Sept. 23rd, 1866, at Harrogate, 
■where of late years Mr. Smith had spent much time, owing to 
the impaired and occasionally very critical state of his health. 
Our late fellow-townsman, who was born at Aberdeen on the 
29th August, 179 7, came to Leeds as the first manager of 
the Leeds Banking Company in 1832 or 1833. The admir- 
able manner in which he conducted the affairs of that company, 
subsequently so unfortunate, led to his receiving froni the 
eminent firm of Messrs. Beckett and Co. an offer of partner- 
ship on the late Mr. Win. Beckett's entering Parliament in 
1841. Prom that date Mr. Smith took an active part in the 
management of the Leeds Old Bank until his health began to 

as 1841, Mr. Hargreave gave the Royal Society a very 'remarkable paper 
on the attraction of a fluid body; he afterwards (1848) gained the Royal 
Medal for a paper on Differential Equations. We shall not dwell on these 
and other proofs of mathematical success ; our space will be better employed 
in giving a few words to the mathematical speculation which employed the 
last months of his life. We grieve to think that the first announcement of 
what must be, on any supposition, a very remarkable paper, should be made 
in an obituary notice. It is well known that Abel, Rowan Hamilton, and 
others, are generally supposed to have settled the well-worn qtiestion of the 
equation of the fifth degree, or quintic. No doubt they have established 
that it is impossible to construct an algebraic function of five independent 
values-, and five only. It has always been held that the third degree has 
been fully solved. Hargreave observed, what many others must have done 
without the thought striking out consequences, that the solution of the third 
degree stands on a very different footing from that of the second. In Car- 
dan's formula, it is not a cubic which is definitely solved, but three associated 
cubics which have their solutions associated in a function of nine values. 
Following up this hint, Hargreave endeavoured to find five associated 
quintics, of which the roots should be associated in an expression of twenty- 
five values. In this he firmly believed he succeeded : and we are glad to say 
that the pamphlet in which his speculation is set forth has been left by him 
fully printed, and ready for circulation. We have not mastered the details, 
but we have entered into it so far as to see that the question of its accuracy 
or inaccuracy is one of common algebraical work. It will give the few alge- 
braists who are fit to approach the task a tight job. The publication, to our 
knowledge, was delayed only by the author's desire to consult another mathe- 
matician, whose verdict was that the fine struck out was very remarkable, 
and that, right or wrong, the publication would be very useful. Should 
the question be decided in his favour, his name will be a household word in 
algebra." 

The Rev. Charles Hale Collier, M.A., late vicar of St. Neot's, Huntingdon- 
shire, and formerly for many years incumbent of St. Luke's Church, in this 
town, died suddenly at St. Neot's vicarage on Saturday evening, June 2nd, 
1866, aged 36 years, and was buried on the Saturday following in his parish 
church. To those who knew him well it would be idle to speak either of his 



622 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

fail some six or seven years ago, since which time he has been 
obliged gradually to withdraw from active life It is well 
known that his services in the bank were very highly valued 
by Mr. Beckett, and we need not add that his loss will be 
greatly lamented by his surviving partners in business. But 
the sense of loss will extend over a much wider area. The 
firm of which Mr. Smith was a member has ever been honour- 
ably distinguished by its wise liberality in periods of 
commercial difficulty, and many men of business know by 
personal experience the part taken by the deceased in the 
manifestation of this quality, so consonant with his natural 
kindness of heart. His public spirit was evinced by the readi- 
ness with which he promoted the chief objects of benevolence 
which have interested the town of late years; while Burley 
church, parsonage, and schools, to the erection and support 
of which he was the largest contributor, are monuments of 
his care for the religious and mental improvement of his 

abilities or his goodness ; — words could neither add to the one nor diminish the 
other. As a scholar he must be judged by scholars ; as a man he must be 
judged by those who know and can appreciate the best parts of man. Many 
can tell of his eleven years' public work in Leeds — as an examiner of public 
schools — of his interest in the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations — 
of his support to the Leeds Library, the Philosophical Hall, the Infirmary, 
the Dispensary, and the House of Recovery, with the working of nearly all 
of which he was most intimately connected. We would pass these, however, 
for more can tell of his private public life, if it may be so called ; that life 
passed in his own district amongst his own people. It w?s here, especially 
in the schools and amongst the young, that he was best known and regarded, 
and many are they who will miss the voice that counselled, and the hand 
that did not forget to help. He who writes these few words of him — and 
perhaps no one knew him better — speaks of him now that he is dead, as he 
always spoke of him when alive. The liberality of his mind was equalled 
only by the kindliness of his heart. It is enough that he will be long 
remembered, though the remembrance be saddened by the regret that they 
who have so often listened to the eloquence of his lips, are left to hear it no more. 
It may or may not increase that regret to know that, perhaps, the very last 
act of his life was to fix the day of his coming again to his old friends at 
Leeds. A letter was found unfolded on his desk to that effect. They must 
be comforted, however, in knowing that he who when in their presence 
thought so much of them in life, did not in absence forget them almost in 
death. A local contemporary states that Mr. Collier had been subject to 
epilepsy for some few years. He was seized with a fit about five o'clock, p.m. , 
and died in a few minutes. Although so recently inducted to the living, he 
had gained general esteem, and is deeply regretted. — He was of Oriel Coll., 
Oxon., third class in classics, and B.A. in 1851; M.A., 1854 ; Deacon, 1852; 
Priest, 1853; Incumbent of St. Luke's, Leeds, 1854, in which church a 
stained glass window is about to be erected to his memory. See also the 
Leeds Intell. and Leeds Mercury for June 9th, 1866. 

* Newman Cash, Esq., an eminent Leeds merchant, and one of the original 
promoters and directors of the Leeds and Selby railway, (the first railway 
connected with Leeds), and afterwards of the Leeds and Thirsk, (now the 
Leeds Northern), died August 1st, 1866, aged 73. Por additional particu- 
lars, omitted for want of space, see the Leeds Papers, &c. 



THE REV. EDWARD MONRO, M.A. 623 

poorer neighbours. His private charities were large and 
numerous, as may be presumed from the testimony to us of 
one who had special opportunities for observation — " I never 
knew a man who was so constantly endeavouring to perform 
acts of kindness to others." The withdrawal of such a man 
cannot but be mourned. The deceased left a widow, three 
sons, and two daughters to mourn their loss. 

1815—1866. 

THE EEY. EDWAED MONRO, M.A., 

Vicar of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Leeds, died 
at the Vicarage, on Thursday evening, Dec. 13th, 1866, aged 
51 years.* Mr. Monro, who had for several months been in 
a declining state of health, and had been absent from Leeds 
for nearly two years, returned only a few weeks ago, but was 
then too ill to take any active part in the services of the 
church. He was appointed to the Vicarage of St. John 
nearly seven years ago, previously to which he had been for 
several years the perpetual curate of Harrow Weald, in the 
county of Middlesex. -\ He was a man of brilliant intellectual 

* The deceased was the eldest son of the late Dr. Edward T. Monro, of 
Harley-street, London, by Sarah, daughter of S. Compton Cox, Esq., 
Master in Chancery, and was descended from the ancient Scottish family of 
the Monros of Fowlis, county Koss. His ancestors for four successive gener- 
ations, have practised as physicians in London, where they have been settled 
for nearly 200 years. The subject of this notice was born in Gower-street, 
in 1815, and educated under Dr. Butler and Dr. Longley, at Harrow, and 
afterwards at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1836, being 
third class in classics, and proceeded M.A. in 1839. He was ordained in 
1837, and having been for some time Curate of Harrow-on-the-Hill, was 
nominated in 1842, by Mr. Cunningham, then the Vicar, to the Incumbency 
of Harrow Weald, which he held until 1860, when he was appointed to the 
Vicarage of St. John's, Leeds. He was the author of several religious 
publications, but is best known by his "Allegorical Tales," which have 
become very widely popular, such as "The Dark River," "The Combatants," 
"The Revellers," "The Midnight Sea," "The Wanderer," "Harry and 
Archie," &c. He was Select Preacher before the University of Oxford, in 
Michaelmas Term, 1852. 

f At Harrow Weald he conducted a training c®llege for schoolmasters and 
candidates for holy orders, which was at one time widely useful. He was 
latterly an adherent of High Church principles, and was the author of 
numerous theological and other works, many of which have become widely 
popular, including a volume of " Sermons, chiefly on the Responsibilities of 
the _ Ministerial office," "Parochial Work," 3 editions; "Daily Studies 
during Lent," &c, &c. The prominent characteristic of Mr. Monro's life 
was sympathy for those in affliction, and the motive to this may be truly 
said to have been love towards G-od and man ; but if we analyse his history 
a Httle, we shall find as tributary to this characteristic a love of family, a 
love of nature, a very early tendency (we might almost term it an instinct} 
for parochial life, and an extraordinary resolution in carrying out the con- 
ceptions of his somewhat poetic imagination. His love of family may be 



624 BIOGKAPIIIA LEODIENSIS. 

power, and as a pulpit orator was both eloquent and forcible, 
and as a lecturer on literary and historical subjects his man- 
ner was at once original and attractive, and from his audience, 
which were generally crowded, he always won very warm 
applause. He made many strenuous exertions for promoting 
the education, and the social and religious advancement of 
the young, especially those of the working classes ; but some 
of his schemes for this object were of a more plausible than 
practical character, and were not attended with success. He 
was the author of several religious stories and other works, 
which are well-known and have had a large circulation. The 
vicarage of St. John, which was founded about two hundred 
years ago by Mr. John Harrison, the renowned benefactor of 
Leeds, is now of considerable value, having risen since 
the death of its founder from some eighty pounds to 
several hundreds per annum; and at the time of 
Mr. Monro's appointment, a new scheme for the appor- 
tionment of the stipend was instituted by the trustees. 
The patrons of the advowson are the Mayor and the 
Yicar of Leeds, and three members of the Town Council, 
who are elected every year on the 1st of January. Those 
elected last New Year's Day were Aid. Botterill, Coun- 
cillor Price, and Councillor Child. Mr. Monro succeeded the 
Rev. F. T. Cookson, who had held the living for forty-nine 
years, and who died on the 20th of December, 1859, aged 73 
years. For a Sketch of whom, see Leeds Worthies, p. 480. 

In this day of our Church's need, when she is passing 
through the throes and struggles of a renewed vigour — one 
may almost call it a new birth in the hearts of her people — 

termed a Scottish inheritance, for the old clan-feeling seems to have clung to 
him as well as to his family generally since the first period of their English 
residence. His love of nature was no doubt much enhanced by the circum- 
stance of his early lif e having been spent in great measure in the romantic 
residence of his grandfather at Bushey. Old Dr. Monro, as we learn from 
Turner's Life, was an early patron of that great artist, as well as of many 
others; and thus the natural beauties of one of the most deeply- wooded 
parts of Hertfordshire, combined with the paintings of Gainsborough, 
Turner, and many others, to make a deep impression on his young mind. 
We find traces of this, particularly in his tale called "Leonard and Dennis," 
which is, as we understand, very much a picture of his grandfather's home ; 
while we may mention his affecting tale called "Harry and Archie," as par- 
ticularly indicative of his own deep affection for a younger brother, who was 
his companion at school, at college, and down to the last hours of his life. 
The Rev. Edw. Monro married Emma, the daughter of Dr. John Hay, of 
the Indian Civil Service, by whom, however, he has left no issue. It had 
always been Mr. Monro's wish that he should be buried in Harrow Weald 
Church yard ; in fact, many years back he selected the spot of ground for 
his grave. See the Gent. Mag. for Feb., 1867, p. 245, &c. 



THE EEV. EDWAKD MONRO, M.A. 625 

all those who, rejoicing in every fresh evidence of life within 
her, yet retain a consciousness of the vastness of the work still 
to be done, and of the untold self-sacrifice yet required to 
accomplish it, will, we are sure, gladly bear with us while we 
add a word or two (In Memoriam) to the memory of one who 
has just passed from among us to his rest, after a life spent 
out in his Master's service. For those who realise the great- 
ness and the difficulty of the work to be done know well that, 
notwithstanding the faults and failures attaching to it, we 
cannot afford to pass over in silence the zealous earnestness 
of men such as him of whom we speak. On Thursday, Dec. 
20th, 1866, the remains of the Eev. Edward Monro were 
borne to their last resting place in Harrow Weald church 
yard, in the midst of the scene of his labours during so many 
years. For some time before the hour appointed for the 
funeral (12 o'clock), the church was completely filled by the 
parishioners, and those who had arrived from all parts, wishing 
to pay a last tribute of respect to one whom they so dearly 
loved ; and it is gratifying to know that the Rev. Canon Atlay, 
D.D., Yicar of Leeds, and almost all the clergy of the town, 
had expressed their wish to be present in the event of the 
funeral having taken place in Leeds ; and indeed there is no 
doubt that had notice been given of the time and place, the 
gathering would have been much larger than it was, while we 
know of many other friends who were kept away by the distance 
of their homes from Harrow Weald. His church at Leeds had 
been the previous evening the scene of a most touching sight. 
Shortly before eight o'clock the body was brought from the 
vicarage to the church, followed by the young people who 
had banded themselves together round their pastor under the 
banner of the brotherhood and sisterhood of St. John the 
Evangelist. Evensong was then sung, and a short address 
given by the Eev. D.Hooke, who, speaking for those assem- 
bled more than to them, expressed in a few feeling words, 
their love for him to whose remains they were about to bid 
farewell, and their sense o± the way in which, as their pastor, 
he had spent himself for their eternal happiness. Some 
hymns were then sung, after which the body was carried out 
to the church-yard gate to be conveyed to the station. As 
the procession left the church they sang a hymn from Pascal 
the Pilgrim, "The gates, the gates are open," &c, and outside 
were joined by a body of about 200 children belonging to the 
school, who of their own loving instinct took the place they 
felt belonged to them, next the hearse, and with the congre- 



626 BIOGRAPHTA LEODIENSIS. 

gation followed it to the station. On arriving at Harrow 
Weald, the body m was taken to the church house close to the 
church yard, where it was joined by the relations and friends 
who were to follow it to its resting place, and shortly after 
twelve o'clock, the procession moved towards the church. 
Among the pall-bearers and mourners were the Eevs. E. T. 
West, W. J. Boys, E Jackson, C. J.LeGreyt, Montagu Burrows, 
Esq., Chichele Professor of History, Oxford; S. P. Kennard, 
Esq., and many others. It was a pleasing sight at this point 
to observe the large number of labourers who had sacrificed 
their work to do honour to him, who had worked so hard and 
so long in former years for them, and the presence of several 
who had been pupils in St. Andrew's college, spoke of their 
gratitude for their friend and instructor. The first part of 
the service was read by the Incumbent, after which was sung 
"Eock of Ages." At the grave the coffin was decked with 
several wreaths of flowers, and a large cross of white and red 
camellias. The prayers were here said by (his brother) the 
Eev. Percy Monro, Incumbent of Colden, near Winchester, 
and at the conclusion of the service two verses of a hymn 
were sung, of which one was, — 

" Dear as thou wert, and justly dear, 
We will not weep for thee, 
One thought shall check the starting tear, 
It is that thou art free." 

The service was most attentively followed by every one 
present, and the affection of the villagers for their former 
loved pastor was testified in a most emphatic manner. We 
understand that some of the poor people have requested 
permission to place a memorial window in the church to the 
name which will be a household word in their homes for 
many years to come. Many as the association of his name 
with Harrow Weald called together to the last service, it will 
bring back to many more hearts memories of days when 
strenuous efforts were being made, almost in the dark, for the 
education of the people under the care of the church. Experi- 
mental, and therefore costly, perhaps injudicious, as such 
efforts were, they have by no means been without their fruit 
in their direct results ; while the middle-class schools of the 
English church, similar to those at Hurstpierpoint, owe 
much to such pioneers as Mr. Monro. The great interest he 
always felt in the young gained for him, almost universally, 
their deepest affection, and his power of influencing them 
for good is strongly reflected in his Allegories and other Tales 



THE REV. EDWARD MONRO, M.A. 627 

for young people, which, have probably been enjoyed by most 
of our readers. But earnestness such as his, combined with 
brilliant intellectual power and much originality of genius, 
attracted and won for him the friendship of many of the 
greatest minds of the day, and though the details of his little 
scattered village supplied him with the chief materials for his 
' 'Parochial Work," yet even there, early as it was written, 
we may see how keenly alive he was to the state of things in 
wider spheres of work. But it was on his transference to an 
important parish in Leeds, about six years ago, that it was 
quickly seen how fully he grasped the whole idea of work in 
a manufacturing town, and how completely his evident 
earnestness gained for him the unreserved confidence of the 
entire working class. It was this earnestness that inspirited 
and drew out towards him the deep affection of all who were 
engaged in the work in his parish, or who came under his 
influence ; still, although in many of his plans there was 
more organisation than was generally supposed, it may be 
confessed that he was happier in sketching the outline than 
in carrying out the details of a scheme, and that his rapid 
power of conception led him to initiate more plans of work 
than were good either for himself or his people ; the 
consequence of which, in many respects, no one more truly 
than himself recognised and regretted during the last months 
of perfect peace that closed his life. But his was a tempera- 
ment that could never rest. He had before him constantly 
an ideal which perhaps could never be reached, but after 
which his life was a continual struggle, the necessary element 
to true enthusiasm ; and it is because we feel that without 
such an element strongly developed within her, the work of the 
church never has, and never will be successfully accomplished, 
because the arrears of work thrown upon the present genera- 
tion require self-sacrifice even unto death, that we have called 
attention to one who devoted all his high brilliant powers and 
energies to the cause in a way that few do. The originality 
of his genius, formed as it was to mark out fresh lines of 
thought and action, led him sometimes into grave errors of 
judgment and practice, but we would remind our readers 
that we need such great spirits amongst us to break up fresh 
ground for us, and by their self-devotion to elevate our 
standard of energy, and we are thankful to know that, with 
his winning affectionate manner, Mr. Monro combined the 
power of communicating to others, in a remarkable degree, 
something of his own spirit, and taught very many how to 



628 BTOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

use effectually the power they possess who now remain to 
work when he has entered into his rest. 

{In Memoriam of theEsv. E. Monro.) — Now that his mortal 
remains have been laid to rest, it cannot be indecorous that 
we should place on record some slight tribute to the memory 
of one who was no ordinary character, and who was regarded 
by those who really knew him with no common love. We 
shall speak of him that has gone only from the knowledge of 
what he has done amongst ourselves within the last few 
years : our testimony shall be based only on the recollection 
of the many hours passed so sweetly, so profitably, under his 
ministration at St. John's, Leeds. Let us take a few of the 
most prominent impressions that are aroused in our mind by 
the memory of the late Yicar of St. John's, and try to find in 
them a clue that may help to explain somewhat of that 
extraordinary influence which he held over so many, The 
first of all is one that cannot, of course, be dwelt upon thus 
publicly at any length. We refer to the depth of his per- 
sonal devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who knew 
him best will testify that this principle was the rock upon 
which his character was founded. All who ever attended his 
ministry must know that to this he ever appealed as the one 
constraining motive to personal religion. And from this we 
are led to note a second very remarkable characteristic of him 
of whom we speak, namely, his wonderful power of influencing 
the affections of his hearers. No one, we venture to say, could 
listen to him with unsoftened heart. And why ? Because he 
preached the gospel of love. No hard, gloomy religious views 
ever fell from him ; no unchristian ideas of Grod were to be 
found in him. He worked on our gratitude, he spoke to our 
hearts, he made us love. And his influence over others 
was increased still further by his manner and style of address. 
Perhaps the greatest and most brilliant speaker that can be 
met with in the annals of the Leeds clergy since the Refor- 
mation, the late vicar of St. John's never spoke merely for 
effect. All was so manifestly real. If his language was 
ornate at times, and his style rhetorical, this was more natural 
than acquired. Perfectly au fait with the rules of oratory, he 
never allowed himself to be slavishly bound by them, and while 
he ever sustained the dignity of a christian priest, who that ever 
heard him can forget the startling vivid manner in which he 
brought home to the heart realities of life and its dangers 
and temptations, too often avoided in the pulpit for the sake 
of so-called " propriety?" Who can forget his glowing 



THE REV. EDWARD MONRO, M.A. 629 

enthusiasm at noble deeds, especially in the young — his love 
for the martyrs, and all who dared to suffer for that name 
which is as ointment poured forth ? Who fails to remember 
his great powers of sarcasm and irony, and the caustic 
manner in which he would expose the vices of the day, 
especially those which are the offspring of meanness, and 
spitefulness, and cant? But in attempting to analyse the 
causes of that wonderful influence over others which was 
possessed by the subject of these remarks, we find in a very 
prominent position his extraordinary power of exhibiting 
sympathy ; the readiness with which he detected the exact 
nature of the difficulty, or the real point of the trouble laid 
before him, and the complete fulness with which he put 
himself in the position of the person with whom he was 
dealing. He made human nature his study, and mastered 
it. Hence the late vicar oi St. John's was equally at home 
in the palace of the duke, or in the cottage of the artizan ; 
he could converse with the savant, the politician, the divine, 
and amuse and win the heart of the Sunday scholar. No one 
loved the young more than he did ; no hearts mourn for him 
more tenderly than do those young communicants who gather 
every Sunday morning round St. John's altar. And this 
puts us in mind of his enormous capability for work, of his 
great fertility of resources (who ever heard him repeat 
himself?), of his indomitable will, which bore him tem- 
porarily through fatigue, but alas ! at the expense of his life. 
"We care not to enlarge upon these points, for his works do 
follow him ; and their remembrance lives in the grateful 
memories of his flock. It were idle to assert that this 
ardent, loving character was without serious and grave 
defects. None are more conscious of them than those who 
loved him, and who saw his usefulness so much impaired by 
reason of them. Only if those who are jealous of his genius 
and envious of gifts enjoyed by him, that are far beyond 
their reach, are tempted to throw stones, let them endeavour 
first of all to put themselves in a safe position by imitating 
his zeal, his love, his unselfishness, his devotion. (In con- 
cluding these very imperfect remarks, which have omitted to 
notice so many very obvious features in the character of him 
who is their subject, we must observe that a ver}^ great 
responsibility rests with those who have to supply his place. 
It requires no common man to follow the steps of him who 
has gone. No one who is afraid to come in contact with 
sickness, and poverty, and disease will suit St. John's ; but 

RR 



630 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

a man of standing and competent experience is required ; a 
man who "knows something of the human heart; who is 
willing to spend and be spent ; who has something of the 
same burning spirit of zeal that glowed in every ministration 
of Edward Monro.) — See the Yorkshire Post, for Dec. 14th and 
22nd, 1866; the Guardian, Church Times, John Bull, &c, for 
Dec. 22nd, 1866; Darling's Cyclopcedia Billiographica; Crock- 
ford's Clerical Directory, &c. 

1787-1867. 
THE EEY. JOSEPH LAWSON SISSON, D.D., 

Born at Leeds, was educated at the Leeds Grammar School, 
and afterwards at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took 
his B.A. degree in 1810, his M.A. in 1814, and his B.D. and 
D.D. in 1827. In 1824, when he published his "Historic 
Sketch of the Parish Church of Wakefield," 4to., 30s., he 
was Sunday evening reader at that church, as well as second 
master in the Grammar School there. About ten years after- 
wards, he became curate of Duntisbourne Abbots, near 
Cirencester, and in 1843 was appointed to the perpetual 
curacy of Coleford, near Newland, in the diocese of Gloucester 
and Bristol. Besides the work above-mentioned he also 
published at various times, "An Anglo-Saxon Grammar," 
12mo., Leeds, 5s. ; " Questions in Divinity," 12mo., Cam- 
bridge; and "Questions on Confirmation," 12mo., Cirencester. 
In " The Prospect and other Poems," by the late Edward 
Moxon (formerly of Wakefield), the eminent bookseller, 
there is a Sonnet immediately following The Prospect headed, 
"To the Rev. J. L. S. (an early friend and encourager of 
Moxon's), with the foregoing Poem;" which begins thus: — 

" My worthy, reverend, trusty friend, 

'Tis far from me to teaze ye ; 
At least what now I greeting send, 

I hope, in sooth, will please ye. 
'Tis not a poem with learning fraught, 

To that I ne'er pretended ; 
Nor yet with Pope's fine touches wrought, 

From that my time prevented." 

The unconscious vanity, which betrays itself in this last line, 
afforded a good handle for a somewhat satirical review of the 
second edition of Moxon's Sonnets, which appeared in the 
Quarterly, vol. lix., p. 209. "This is quite a dandy of a 
book," the writer begins : — " some seventy-pages of drawing 



EDWIN EDDISON, ESQ. 631 

paper, fifty-five of which are impressed each with a single 
sonnet in all the luxury of type, while the rest are decked out 
with vignettes of nymphs in clouds and bowers, and cupids in 
rose-bushes and cockle-shells, &c. Dr. Sisson died in May, 
1866, aged 80. His son, the Rev. Jos. Lawson Sisson, is 
rector of Edingthorpe, North Walsham, Norfolk, and British 
Chaplain at Lausanne, Switzerland. See Lupton's Wakefield 
Worthies, &c. For an account of the Sisson family, see Gent. 
Mag., for 1864, p. 674, &c. — For brief Sketches of his uncles, 
the Eev. Thos. Sisson, and the Rev. Wm. Lawson, both 
natives of Leeds, and educated at our Grammar School, see 
Leeds Worthies, p. 372, &c. 

1806—1867. 

EDWIN EDDISON, ESQ., 

Solicitor, one of our most excellent and highly esteemed 
townsmen, of the legal firm of Messrs. Payne, Eddison and 
Eord, died at his residence at Headingley Hill, near Leeds, 
on Sunday, Jan. 13th, 1867, sincerely and generally 
lamented, at the age of sixty-one, after a long illness borne 
with much resignation. Though not a native of Leeds, Mr. 
Eddison had resided in the town from his youth ; and having 
for several years filled the important office of Town Clerk, 
and always taken an active part in public affairs, he was 
universally known, and as universally respected. It was in 
the- year 1836, after the creation of our new Corporation 
under the Municipal Reform Act, that Mr. Eddison was 
appointed by the Town Council to the office of Town Clerk; 
and the unwearied and even excessive assiduity with which 
he applied himself to the duties of his office, combined with 
his attention to professional business, undermined his health, 
and in a few years obliged him to resign the appointment.* 
Since that period his life has been much less public ; but both 
before and since he took an active and gratuitous part in con- 
ducting or promoting the election of the liberal members for 

* During the time lie filled the office of town clerk, (which he resigned on 
account of his somewhat impaired health at the time, and the claims which 
his private professional business had upon him), the first Leeds Improvement 
Bill for this borough was passed by Parliament. In most of the leading 
public questions of the borough Mr. Eddison took a prominent part, and 
brought to bear upon them sound practical sense, and amongst them may 
especially be mentioned the water and the smoke questions. He always 
showed a warm interest in the prosperity of this borough, and was a liberal 
supporter of its chief public institutions. He did much towards the estab- 
lishment of the Leeds Cattle Market, and in many other ways he advanced 
the welfare of this town. He was a warm lover of agriculture, and his 



632 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

the "West Riding of Yorkshire, and the borough of Leeds, 
in conjunction with the leaders of the liberal party. The 
generous ardour and perfect disinterestedness with which Mr. 
Eddison ever supported his political principles and his friends 
was worthy of high admiration. His was a genuine patriot- 
ism and an honest love of improvement and progress. He 
was the determined enemy of every abuse ; and down to his 
last illness, in which he watched with great interest the 
proceedings of the Commissioners on the Pollution of Rivers, 
he exerted himself in season and out of season to put down 
the smoke nuisance and every other "nuisance, and to promote 
the improvement of our town. In such efforts he expended 
large sums of money, as well as much labour. He was also 
actuated by an enlightened zeal for the better cultivation of 
the soil, and the improvement of the breeds of cattle, pigs, 
and poultry ; and no one exerted himself more to promote 
those agricultural, horticultural, and other societies which 
have done so much for the national benefit in this direction. 
He had a model farm at Addle, near Leeds, in which he 
illustrated the best methods of husbandry, and produced 
some of the finest breeds of animals. In his own profession 
he showed himself on many occasions the practical friend of 
law reform, and he was a leading member of the Leeds Law 
Society. Mr. Eddison zealously furthered the securing of 
Woodhouse Moor and Holbeck Moor, to the perpetual use of 
the inhabitanis, and at an earlier date he took a leading part 
in the support of the Zoological and Botanical gardens. He 
favoured all movements for the spread of education. In 
short, Leeds has seldom known a man of purer, warmer, or 
more practical public spirit, or to whom the tribute of public 
gratitude has been more eminently due. In private life his 
virtues endeared him to a large circle of relations and friends : 
he was honourable, affectionate, generous, gentle, cheerful, 
and obliging. Mr. Eddison was brought clown by a heart 
disease, which had laid him aside for more than a year. It 
had been hoped that a voyage across the Atlantic, and a visit 
to friends in the United States, would be beneficial ; but the 
fatigue and the extreme heat of the last summer only 
accelerated the progress of his mortal disease. Mr. Eddison 
was a member of the Society of Friends, and he partook of 
the spirit of that valuable body. 

farms in the neighbourhood are amongst the best cultivated in this part of 
the country. His father, Mr. Geo. Eddison, of Holbeck, died in March, 
1827, at an advanced age. See the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, for 
Jan. 14th and 15th, 1867, &c. 



CHARLES JAMES KNOWLES, ESQ., Q.C. 633 

1798—1867. 
CHAS. JAS. KNOWLES, ESQ., Q.C.,* 

An eminent barrister, well-known in the North, being a 
native of Gromersal, near Leeds, and brother to Herbert 
Knowles, who died at Gromersal, in February, 1817, at the 
early age of 19. (See Leeds Worthies, p. 266.) Few men 
have lived and died more universally respected than this 
once well-known advocate. He was another of the many 
instances recently quoted of men who have achieved success 
at the bar without having had the benefit of a university 
education. Sprung from the middle class in Yorkshire fat 
Gomersal, near Leeds), he began life with narrow means, and 
without interest or advantages of any kind. He was called 
to the bar in November, 1823, and, for many years after- 
wards, went the hopeless round of the Northern Circuit 
without business ; but, as the great men of that circuit 
gradually left it, his useful qualities as an advocate brought 
him into notice, and, once known, he rapidly took a good 
position in his profession, being made Queen's Counsel in 
1841, and shortly afterwards (in 1846) ilLttorney- General of 
the County Palatine. From that time he had a large share 
of business, both on circuit and in London. He left circuit 
in 1856, and, as he was then leader of the circuit and in full 
enjoyment of its honours and emoluments, his retirement to 
make room for others was appreciated by all who benefited 
by it as a graceful and considerate act, and one in unison 
with his character. His reputation at the bar rested chiefly 
on his talent for stating facts, which could not be surpassed, 
either in the arrangement of his matter or in the choice of his 
language — a quality which made him in request as leader in 
patent causes ; and he was especially happy and dexterous in 
cross-examination, where his tact, discretion and humour had 
ample scope. Without ambition, he lived for the last seven or 

* Mr. Charles James Knowles was the second son of the late James 
Knowles, Esquire, of Green Head, County York, by Elizabeth, 
daughter of Thomas Phillips, Esq., and was born at Green Head in 
the year, 1798. He was leader of the Northern Circuit many years, and 
used to be leading counsel in the principal cases in our civil courts when the 
late Baron Watson, Mr. Justice Hill, the late Sir William Atherton, and 
other eminent lawyers, were ornaments of the Northern bar. Mr. Knowles 
was a_ conservative, and was at one time Attorney -General for the County 
Palatine of Lancaster. He was a gentleman of great legal attainments, and 
though he was not very remarkable for forensic eloquence, he could take a 
tenacious grasp of a case, and '"manage" a witness when he got him into 
the box. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, on the 7th of 
November, 1828. See also the Yorkshire Post, Law Times, Gent. Mag. , &c. 



634 EIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

eight years of Ms life in retirement at Hurst Green, in 
Sussex, fulfilling, unostentatiously, the duties of a magistrate, 
landlord, and neighbour. Those who knew him in private 
will treasure up the recollections of their intercourse with one 
whose simplicity of character, well-stored memory, playful 
humour, and kind and genial hospitality, shed a charm over 
his society. He died, unmarried, at Hurst Green, on the 
12th of February, 1867, at the age of 68. See the Leeds 
Mercury, for February 23, 1867; Must. Lond. News, for 
March 2, 1867, &c. 

1791.— 1867. 

JOHN GOTT, ESQ., J.P., 

One of the most worthy of our fellow townsmen, the head of 
the well-known and long-established firm of Messrs. Ben- 
jamin Gott & Sons, woollen cloth merchants, died at his 
residence, Armley House, near Leeds, on Monday morning 
April 1st, 1867. The announcement of this melancholy 
event excited feelings of sorrow, not only amongst all classes 
in this borough, but also wherever his name and the good 
deeds of Mr. Gott were known. Throughout a long life — for 
the deceased gentleman was in the seventy-sixth year of his 
age — his public conduct as a citizen, not less than that 
which characterised him as a merchant and manufacturer, 
was of a high order. Like his honoured father, Mr. Benjamin 
Gott,* and other revered members of his family, Mr. John 
Gott being blessed with great success in his business pursuits, 
showed a constant sense of gratitude to the Giver of all good 
gifts. From the affluence which followed his industry and 
enterprise, the religious, the educational, the scientific, the 

* Mr. John G-ott inherited from his father the strong: practical sense and 
mental vigour, which gave to the firm of Benj. G-ott & Sons an historical 
name in connection with the woollen trade of Yorkshire, and he combined 
with these business qualities a cultivated mind, refined taste, the courtesy 
and urbanity of a gentleman, the liberality of a merchant-prince, the 
patriotism of a true citizen, and the generosity and kindliness of disposition 
of an earnest and sincere christian. The lif e of Mr. Gott, like that of his 
father, is, in a great measure, the scientific, religious, and social history of 
Leeds for half a century. The names of few men have been better and 
more deservedly known, in all that enobles and dignifies an earnest and 
quiet life, than that of John Gott. His charity, which was munificent in its 
hberahty, knew neither sect nor party, and his political convictions, which 
identified him with Conservatism, were never paraded with offensive zeal. 
Mr. Gott was a West Riding magistrate, and sat regularly on the bench. 
He was connected with the Literary and Philosophical Society for many 
years, and his name will be found amongst the most liberal of the donors to 



JOHN GOTT, ESQ., J. P. 635 

philanthropic, the benevolent, and the charitable institutions 
of his native town were objects of his magnificent liberality, 
and his donations to many of them were of a princely character. 
But not only these, but many others of a more extensive range 
of operations, received his enlightened advocacy and his 
generous support, and that, too, not at long intervals, but 
throughout the whole of his life. It is quite out of our 
power, in this brief and hurried tributary notice, to enumerate 
the many good offices which Mr. Grott rendered, but we may 
mention a few. He was one of the most liberal con- 
tributors to the funds for the erection of the new parish 
church of this town, as he was also to the erection of St. 
George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Philip's, and, we believe, to 
the endowment of the last, if not others of these churches. 
He also contributed largely to the Leeds Church Extension 
Fund. The General Infirmary, the Dispensary, and the 
House of Recovery were also objects of his Christian 
benevolence. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 
the Church Missionary Society, the Pastoral Aid Society, the 
Additional Curates' Society, the Society for the Promotion of 
Christian Knowledge, the British and Foreign Bible Society, 
and several other societies for promoting religion, bear his 
familiar name on their subscription lists. He contributed 
also very liberally to the erection and extension of the hall' 
of the Leeds Philosophical Society, and was one of the 
original trustees of that institution at its formation in 1819. 
The Leeds Town Mission and several other local societies 
likewise received his generous aid. Being a sound Church- 
man, and a consistent Conservative, we believe he was more 
than once solicited to offer himself as a candidate in the latter 
interest for the parliamentary representation of this borough ; 

the General Infirmary, the Church Institute, the Mechanics' Institution, 
the various funds for increasing the Church accommodation, not only of 
Leeds but of the West Riding, of all the principal charities of the town, 
and of the many funds raised from time to time in aid of sufferers from 
great local or national calamities. For two or three years the unsatisfactory 
state of his health rendered necessary his retirement from public life. 
Though thus prepared for the announcement of his death, the public heard 
of it with deep sorrow, and mourned with a common sadness the loss of one 
of our worthiest citizens. His memory, however, will be reverently 
cherished for many years in the hearts' of the thousands of his fellow- 
townsmen, who knew him as deserving of all praise and honour. 

For a long account of the late Benjamin and William Gott, Esqrs., see 
the Worthies of Leeds, &c, pp. 377 and 511 ; Chambers's Edin. Journal, 
vol. x. (for 1841), p. 353 ; also, an article on " Leeds and its Merchants," in 
London Society, for Oct. , 1866 ; and Fox Browne's English Merchants, 
vol. ii., chap. 23, pp. 211—233, &c. 



636 BIOGRAPHTA LEODIE5TSIS. 

but his feeling of modesty, and the unostentatious and retiring 
character of his disposition, induced liini to decline that 
honour, which a sense of his worth and ability would have 
prompted, in all probability, his fellow-townsmen to confer 
upon him. It was not less due to his being the head of the 
greatest woollen cloth firm in Leeds, than to his sound sense 
of manufacturing and mercantile pursuits, that he was 
appointed one of the Royal Commissioners for the Inter- 
national Exhibition in 1851. To the important and onerous 
work which that office involved Mr. Grott devoted much time 
and attention, and it is but bare justice to state that his 
services were recognised by all capable of forming a correct 
opinion as being extremely valuable. In 1836 Mr. Grott was 
placed on the commission of the peace for this borough, but 
he declined to qualify. He was a magistrate and Deputy- 
Lieutenant for the West Hiding, and discharged the duties 
of those offices with great circumspection. In his private 
and domestic relations, as well as those to which we have 
made reference, Mr. G-ott was exemplary, and his memory 
will be blessed by his servants, as well as by his kindred and 
intimate friends. He possessed 

" A heart within whose secret cell 
The peaceful virtues loved to dwell ; 

Affection warm, and faith sincere, 
And soft humanity were there." 

On Monday, April 8th, 1867, the grave closed over the mortal 
remains of Mr. John Grott, whose lamented death we have 
recorded above. The funeral was very numerously attended, 
and the mournful demeanour of thousands of spectators who 
lined the whole of the public road from Armley House, the 
residence of the deceased gentleman, to Armley Church, the 
place of sepulture, was a tribute of respect to his memory 
not less significant and not less sincere than that mure 
demonstratively shown by his kindred, his friends, his 
servants, and the host of gentlemen who formed the funeral 
cortege. The time appointed for the funeral was half-past 
eleven o'clock in the morning, and shortly after that hour the 
procession started from Armley House, in the following 
order: — 

The Armley Clothiers' Society 

(of which Mr. Gott was an honorary member). 

Servants from Bean Ing and Armley Mills, belonging to 

Messrs. B. Gott & Sons. 

Warehousemen. 
Tenantry and Tradesmen. 



JOHN GOTT, ESQ., J. P. 637 

The Undertakers. 

Mutes. 

Large Plume of Feathers. 

The Hearse. 

Mourning Coaches (eleven in number). 

Family Carriages (three in number.) 

About fifty private carriages. 

In the first mourning coach were Mr. "W. E. Grott, the Rev. 
John Grott, the Eev. G-eo. Kinnear, and the Eev. H. Gr. Kinnear. 
In the second — Mr. T. J. Kinnear, Mr. H. Maitland, Mr. 
James Macbraire, and the Rev. John Maitland. In the 
third — Master Gott, Master J. A. Grott, Mr. Benj. Dixon 
(Wakefield), and Dr. Nairne. In the fourth— Mr. J. C. 
Ewart, Mr. S. Hey, and Mr. T. T. Dibb. In the fifth— Mr. J. E. 
Naylor, Mr. J. W. Rhodes, and Mr. Gr. B. Nelson. In the 
sixth and seventh carriages were the pall-bearers, namely, 
the Yen. Archdeacon Musgrave, the Rev. James Armitage 
Rhodes, Mr. W. Hey, Mr. D. Peckover, Mr. "W. B. Denison, 
Mr. R. B. Turner, Mr. J. Mason Tennant, and Mr. T. H. 
Marshall. In the eighth were Mr. Tilburn and Mr. Barnes, 
confidential servants, and Mr. Milnes, Mr. J. S. Catton, and 
Mr. Cox, travellers, &c. In the ninth were Mr. John Barnes, 
jun., Mr. Wathen, and Mr. John Bower. The tenth and 
eleventh were occupied by the domestic servants.* 

* We are not able to give anything like a list of gentlemen who were in 
the private carriages, or who were present at the church. We observed the 
following: — The Mayor (Mr. Fairbairn), Mr. H. Chorley, Mr. John Cooper, 
Mr. D. Lupton, Mr. Jos. Bateson, Leeds borough magistrates ; Mr. W. 
Cooler, Mr Frederick Baines, Mr. John Jowitt, jun. , Mr. J. 0. Butler, 
Mr. H. Sykes, Mr. W. Wilson (Armley), Mr. W. Dufton, Mr. T. P. Teale 
jun., Mr. W. J. Armitage, Mr. F. W. Tetley, Mr. W. Ledgard, Mr. T. 
Kirkby, Dr. Heaton, Mr. J. I. Ikin, Mr. T. Nussey, Mr. J. W. Atkinson, 
Mr. T. E. Lupton, Mr. Mellor, Mr. Wainman, Mr. Stenson, Mr. Bimis, 
Mr. H. Denny, Mr. H. Ludolf ; Major Middleton, Mr. G-rimshaw, Mr. 
Masser, Mr. N. Sharpe, Mr. Gledhill, members of the Leeds Board of 
Guardians ; Mr. H. Lampen, clerk to the Board ; The Rev. J. Blomefield, 
incumbent of St. George's ; the Rev. G. Thomas, incumbent of St. Philip's ; 
the Rev. J. R. Stratten, perpetual curate of St. Paul's : the Rev. J. 
Bickerdike, perpetual curate of St. Mary's ; the Rev. S. Flood, 
vicar of St. Mathew's, &c. Owing to the West Riding Sessions 
being held at Wakefield on that day, many West Riding magis- 
trates and other gentlemen were unable to attend the funeral, 
who otherwise would have been present. The great bell at the 
Leeds Town Hall was muffled, and sent forth mournful tones at the time of 
the funeral, and several of the tradesmen in Leeds closed their shops as a 
mark of respect for the deceased. The funeral arrangements w^re entrusted 
to Messrs John Wales Smith & Son, Commercial Street, and were carried 
out in a very satisfactory manner. Mr. G. B. Pritchard, churchwarden ; 
Mr. W. C. Swithenbank, Mr. Richard Topham, and Mr. Geo. Broadbent, 
ex-churchwardens ; Mr. Isaac Akeroyd, guardian of the poor ; and Mr. J. D, 



638 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEWSIS. 

On reaching the church, the body was met at the entrance 
by the Eev. Dr. Atlay, vicar of Leeds ; the Eev F. G. Hume 
Smith, perpetual curate of Armley; the Rev. William 
Groodall, curate of Armley; the Eev. Benjamin Crosthwaite, 
vicar of St. Andrew's ; and the Eev. F. J. Wood, clerk in 
orders at the Leeds Parish Church. The Eev. Dr. Atlay and 
the Eev. Mr. Smith read the opening sentences of the sublime 
Burial Service, which were followed by the Dead March in 
" Saul," from the organ, by Mr. J. V. Roberts. The Psalms 
were solemnly rendered by the Armley Church choir, under 
Mr. Pichersgill, from Merlectts Boole of Common Praire Noted, 
1550. The Eev. Dr. Atlay read the Lessons, and the Prayers 
were read by the Eev. Mr. Smith. A solemn dirge was 
played on the organ whilst the coffin was lowered into the 
family vault, in the north-eastern corner of the church. The 
service was closed by the choir singing the first part of 
Hymn No. 141, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, commencing 
*' Brief life is here our portion." The inscription upon a brass- 
plate on the coffin was : — "John Grott, Esq., born Nov. 12, 
1791 ; died April 1, 1867." The church was crowded in every 
part, and a deep feeling of reverential sorrow pervaded the 
whole of the persons present.* 

Hunter, assistant overseer, took prominent positions in the arrangements at 
the church. There was also a small body of the Leeds police, under the 
charge of Superintendent Senior, whose chief duty was to keep the crowd 
of spectators in order, a task easily and efficiently discharged. 

* The will and codicils of the late Mr. John Gott, of Armley House, York- 
shire, who died on the 1st April last, without issue, have just been proved in 
the Wakefield District Registry of the Court of Probate, by Mr. William 
Allan, of Chichester Terrace, Brighton, the brother-in-law and sole surviving 
executor. The personality was sworn under £350,000. The will is dated in 
1852, and under it the testator's relict takes all his furniture and moveable 
effects, an immediate legacy of £500, an annuity of £1200 (in addition to the 
provision of her marriage settlement), and all property accrued to her since 
their marriage. The f oilowing legacies are bequeathed, free of duty, viz. : — 
To Mr. Henry Wormald, £10,000 ; to his executor, to be held on certain 
trusts specified in the will of the late Mr. Richard Wormald, of Cookridge 
Hall, £10,000 ; to Mr. Allan, his executor, £500 ; to the Leeds Infirmary, 
£200 ; to the House of Recovery, £100 ; to the Leeds Public Dispensary, 
£100. He also gives to each of his six sisters, Mrs. Allan, Miss H. Cott, Mrs. 
Kinnear, Mrs. Maitland, Mrs. Brooke, and Mrs. Macbraire, £10,000. An 
estate at Wooclkall, in Calverley, he devises to his nephew, the Rev. John 
Gott. All the residue of his real and personal estate, including valuable 
estates at Bean Ing, and in G-uildford Street, the testator gives to his brother, 
Mr. William Cott ; but, by the death of the latter in the lifetime of the 
testator, this gift has lapsed, and in consequence the whole of the real estate 
(besides the family estates which are in settlement) devolves upon the heir- 
at-law, Mr. B. Cott ; and the residue of the personal estate passes half to the 
relict, and half amongst the next of kin — viz., the testator's six sisters above- 
named, and the family of the late Mr. William Gott, who take amongst 
them one-seventh share of it. 



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639 



1721—1788. 

BENJAMIN WILSON, ESQ., E E.S., 

(For Page 185, or 590.) 

The father of General Sir Eobt. Wilson,* was born at Leeds, 
in 1721. He left to his children for their example and 
instruction a manuscript history of his remarkable and event- 
ful life, but added a strict injunction that it should never be 
published.f This injunction has been obeyed; but it was 
obeyed with great regret by his son, Sir Robert. He saw in 
this biography that which, in addition to various incident and 
amusing anecdote, renders such narratives of the highest 
value — the true relation by a perfectly honest man of his own 
arduous and successful efforts in the conscientious use of his 
natural gifts, to place himself worthily among his fellow- 
men. The record must still be held sacred ; but it is con- 
sidered that there will be no violation of the spirit of the 
injunction if, in order to correct the erroneous impressions 
that have arisen from entire silence hitherto on the part of 
the family, an outline of Benj. Wilson's life is extracted and 
made public : more especially as many of the facts of his life 
are already recorded in the "Philosophical Transactions of 
the Eoyal Society," and elsewhere. 

The father of Benj. Wilson, whose christian name was 
Major, was born at Leeds in 1674. He married there in 
1697, Miss Elizabeth Yates, of whose family nothing is 
recorded in the manuscript. Eourteen children were the 
issue of this marriage, of whom Benjamin, therefore so named, 
was the youngest. 

The family appear to have been long settled in Leeds. 
Richard Wilson, a near relative of Major, was recorder of the 
town. He left at his death £150,000; and upon his 
authority Benj. Wilson states that his father " was the most 
considerable merchant in Leeds." Of his wealth, influence, 
and popularity among his fellow-townsmen, some remarkable 
instances are given. But the misfortunes incident to great 
commercial prosperity and extended speculation befel him 
about the time that his youngest son was born. At an early 

* From the "Life of General Sir Robert Wilson," edited by the Rev. 
Herbert Randolph, M.A., 2 vols., Lond., Murray, 1862; this Sketch has 
chiefly been compiled. 

t See " Memoirs of Benj. Wilson, F.R.S." born at Mill Hill House, near 
Leeds, in 1721, the friend of Dr. Franklin, &c, 8vo., original (unpublished) 
MSS., written by G-. H. Gilchrist, 1826, in possession of Mr. J. C. Hotten, 
bookseller, Piccadilly, London. 



640 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEXSIS. 

age the boy was sent to the great school at Leeds : in conse- 
quence of a difference with the master he was taken from it 
and sent to another school ; there he remained until he was 
head of it, when just as he had begun Greek he was finally 
removed. This " cost him many tears," for the spirit of 
emulation had been awakened in him, and he felt a " strong 
desire " to " improve himself," and to " excel others," and an 
" ardent ambition to be a scholar." But his natural genius 
had received an earlier direction. His father, in the time of 
his prosperity, had employed Parmentier,* a French artist of 
note, for three years in decorating the walls and ceilings of 
his house on Mill Hill with historical paintings in fresco, the 
subjects of which were chiefly scriptural. When the work 
was finished " people flocked to see it." The beauty of these 
paintings moved the admiration of the child, and his inborn 
faculty of imitation soon showed itself. "I never," he writes, 
" was so happy as when I made something like them." These 
copies were commended and purchased " for pence and half- 
pence" by his schoolfellows, and by this means his natural 
power was stimulated to greater exertions. During this time 
he taught himself writing, and had advanced so far as to 
' ' attempt an imitation of a very fine specimen by Mr. Allen, 
a famous writing-master in Leeds," before either his school- 
master or his parents knew that he had touched a pen. The 
check uponhis industry and ambition by his removal from school 
was a cruel grievance, but after some time of comparative idle- 
ness, "Providence began to hold out ahandfor his deliverance." 
Monsieur Longueville, a painter employed by Mr. Liston, 
Member of Parliament, of Grisburne Park, in Craven, in 
painting historical pictures in three colours, having obtained 
possession of some of his drawings, became interested in his 
welfare, and offered to instruct him in the art. With him he 
remained nearly twelve months ; when, by the advice of a 
friend, a merchant in Leeds, he determined to go to London. 
He travelled by waggon and walked, and upon his arrival 
was furnished by a relation with complete new clothing and 
two guineas : this was the whole of his worldly substance for 
his start in life. He found a lodging for the first year in the 
house of a person who was under some obligation to his 
family. The wife of this man washed for him without charge ; 
and thus, during this time, his only expense was for meat and 

* Parmentier painted the old altar-piece in St. Peter's Church at Leeds, 
" Moses Receiving the Law." He also painted the staircase at Worksop 
Manor, the seat of the Duke of Newcastle : this is considered his best work. 



BENJAMIN WILSON, ESQ., E.R.S. 641 

drink. He "lived upon bread and milk," and employed 
himself in painting, writing, and reading. The whole cost of 
his living daring these twelve months did not exceed his two guineas. 
At the end of this year he obtained a clerkship at the Registry 
of the Prerogative Court in Doctors' Commons, where he 
received a salary of three half-crowns a week. Out of this he 
saved " five shillings a week, and lived as well as an emperor." 
He had always u an ambition to keep better company than himself; " 
and as long as his means did not permit this, he was "content," 
he says, " to stay at home and pass his time in self-improve- 
ment." Patiently and hopefully he worked on, until he was 
master of £50. He then thought himself entitled to improve 
his manner of living ; and in a short time having obtained a 
recommendation to the Registrar of the Charter-house, he 
became his clerk, at an enlarged salary amounting with fees 
to 1 5s. a week. Improved means, and less laborious duties, 
enabled him now to follow the bent of his genius, and more 
freely indulge his taste in painting. He. soon succeeded so 
well as to attract the attention, and secure the friendly offices 
of Hogarth, Hudson, Lambert, Gravelot, Hayman, and 
others more or less eminent in their art; and was re- 
commended by them to make painting his profession. His 
young ambition, however, would acknowledge no such bounds ; 
for already had the accidental touch of another chord roused 
new sympathies, and awakened the consciousness of new 
powers. Feeling a " desire to render himself more agreeable 
in all societies," and " determined that none should reproach 
him with ignorance, he formed a resolution to " know some- 
thing of everything," and therefore set himself the task to 
make some specific addition to his knowledge every day for 
a year ; regularly recording his progress and acquisitions in 
a note-book. He began this systematic course with the 
periodicals of the time — Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians ; 
then Gil Bias, Bon Quixote, and other popular books. Next 
he read the History of England, Pollin's Ancient History, 
'Caesar's Commentaries, and The Life of Charles XTI. of Sweden. 
Then the poets — ShaJcspeare, Dry den, Pope, Prior, Pope's 
Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Swift. After these he laboured 
long, and at first unsuccessfully, with Locke, but mastered him 
at length. Then Euclid, Helsham's Lectures, Besaguliers, 
Bacon, Boyle, and Newton's Principia and Optics. His study 
of these latter subjects excited a taste for experimental 
philosophy, and this taste introduced him to the acquaintance 
of Mr. Watson then an apothecary, and afterwards a doctor 



642 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEKSIS. 

of medicine. Mr. Watson was fond of experiments in 
electricity, at that time a novel science. Among other friends 
•whom he had made was Mr. John Smeaton the celebrated 
engineer. These pursuits introduced him to a very large 
circle of acquaintance, from among whom he chose as inti- 
mate friends only those of the most prominent intelligence 
and of the highest worth ; and his time being almost at his 
own command he continued his studies of painting, mathe- 
matics, and philosophy with vigour, and soon forced hiinself 
into wider notice. 

From observation of the facts of electricity, especially of 
the effect of isolation, he suspected that the fluid was not 
resident or engendered in vitreous and resinous substances 
only, but that it was merely collected in them and proceeded 
in reality from the earth itself. This idea he communicated 
to Mr. "Wollaston, Mr. Hyde, and to Martin Ffolkes the 
President of the Royal Society. Mr. Ffolkes urged him to 
prepare experiments for the proof of his theory and gave him 
the further advice, that as he meant to keep up his original 
study of painting he should go to Ireland for two years for 
that purpose ; saying, in explanation of the reason of his 
advice, that early works painted there would not appear 
against him in this country, and that so he would start here 
with fuller mastery of his pencil and better chances of success. 
"Wilson saw the prudence of this advice and determined to 
adopt it, but chose first to pay a short visit to Dublin, to pre- 
pare the way for a longer residence. Upon his return he was 
anxious to arrive in London in time for a meeting of the Hoyal 
Society, at which a letter written from Ireland on the subject 
of his " discovery*' was to be read : he therefore rode on post 
horses a hundred and eighty-eight miles in twenty-three hours, 
and accomplished his object. Soon after this, in the same 
year, 1746, he published his " discovery" in a paper entitled 
"An Essay towards an Explication of the Phenomena of 
Electricity deduced from the JEther of Sir Isaac Newton." 
It attracted notice, and procured him many friends ; among 
whom was Mr., afterwards Sir Wm., Young. This acquain- 
tance proved of mutual interest and advantage. Wilson 
introduced Sir William to several philosophical friends of his 
own who entertained him with various experiments in 
different sciences, and Sir William invited him to his house 
in Kent, presented him with a valuable reflecting telescope, 
and wished to give him a " library of philosophical books." 
Wilson thinking this a disproportionate generosity declined 



BENJAMIN WILSON, ESQ., E.B.S. 643 

the gift ; but as Sir William Young persisted, lie at last was 
induced to " accept the works of Bacon." At this house also 
he painted several pictures for his host and his friends, and 
here he enlarged his acquaintance considerably. 

In the spring of 1748 he set out once more for Ireland to 
spend two years there, in compliance with the advice of the 
President of the Royal Society. During this visit he spent 
his time in painting, philosophical experiments, and writing 
his treatise on Electricity, which was published soon after his 
return in 1750. Among other advantages derived from this 
visit was the friendship of the Earl of Orrery. On his return 
to England he took the house in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's 
Inn Fields, previously occupied by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
The first portraits painted after his return were those of 
Martin Ffolkes, Lord Orrery, Lord Chesterfield, David Garrick, 
and Mr. Foote. Here too he painted Garrick as Borneo and 
Miss Bellamy as Juliet in the tomb scene. From this picture 
an engraving was taken which sold freely. 

Among his acquaintance formed at this period were Mr. 
Anthony Champion, Sir Thos. Robinson, and the Marquis of 
Hockingham. Lord Rockingham bestowed on him many 
singular marks of favour and attachment, and at his house 
he stayed many months in the first year of that nobleman's 
marriage, painting portraits for him. In 1756 he became a 
Fellow of the Royal Society. His most successful portraits 
so far were those of Lord Rockingham, Lord Harcourt, Lord 
Camden, and Sir Geo. Savile. We have now brought down 
the personal history of Benjamin Wilson to the time when his 
paintings were bringing him in £1500 a year. His 
philosophical experiments and researches,. however, were not 
interrupted. In this year he published, in conjunction with 
Dr. Hoadley, the son of the Bishop of Winchester, who had 
sought his acquaintance for that purpose, a work entitled 
" Experiments and Observations upon Electricity." A second 
edition was published in 1 759. His labours of various kinds 
now required larger space, and he took the house adjoining his 
own dwelling — also the property of the heirs of Sir Godfrey 
Kneller — formerly tenanted by the celebrated Dr. RadclifTe, 
and afterwards used as Queen Anne's wardrobe. Here he 
received for the exhibition of his experiments most of the 
foreign ministers and philosophers, among whom he mentions 
Clairant, Condamine, and De Lalande. At this time Joshua 
Reynolds was rising into celebrity ; and Hogarth, who had 
not equal success in portrait painting, proposed to Wilson to 



644 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIE2\ T 3IS. 

join him in this branch of the art, in order to secure what he 
considered a just proportion of the public favour. Hogarth 
was so anxious for this partnership that he applied to Grarrick, 
with whom both on account of his dramatic excellence and 
high qualities "Wilson had formed a close intimacy, to 
persuade him to accept the proposal : for good reasons, how- 
ever, Wilson declined it. 

Governor Watts, who had made a large fortune in India 
with Lord Clive, employed him liberally in his art and treated 
him with warm and generous friendship. Among other acts 
of kindness he ordered two very large pictures — one was the 
ceremony of Meer Jaffier, Surajah Dowlak's general, taking 
the oath by having the Koran placed on his head in the 
presence of his son and the governor, on account of a treaty 
made with Meer Jaffier in favour of the East India Company 
before the battle of Plassey. The other represented Lord 
Clive placing Meer Jaffier on the Musnud. In this picture 
also Governor Watts was introduced, in company with two 
famous Sepoy merchants — said to be worth twenty millions 
sterling each — who had assisted the governor with large loans 
in order to enable him to keep his engagements with the 
company. Watts died before this second picture was finished, 
and Wilson sold it some years after to Dr. Hird, of Leeds, 
for an annuity of £31. 10s. for his life. Lord Mexborough, 
his sister Lady Stanhope, and Sir Francis Delaval — ail 
introduced to him by his friend Mr. Edward Delaval — also 
shewed him many marks of special favour, and he painted 
several pictures for them. But the most important kindness 
for which he was indebted to Lord Mexborough was an intro- 
duction to the Duke of York. Soon after this, through the 
influence of Lady Stanhope and the Duke of York, he was 
appointed painter to the Board of Ordnance. Having now, 
at the age of fifty, a permanent position and fixed income, he 
determined to marry He might often, he says, have "married 
before ladies of good fortune," but he could not endure a 
"gay, dressy, dissipated turn, and flaunting disposition." 
He soon afterwards became acquainted with Miss Hether- 
ington, a lady of good birth, but with no dowry except her 
rare beauty and her many virtues. He speaks with admira- 
tion of the first and with warm affection of the last, and adds, 
"Something further I have to say in her favour, — that I 
saved more money from the time I first knew her than I had 
ever done in the same space of time." They were married in 
1771. By her he had seven children: — 1. Frances, married 



BENJAMIN WILSON, ESQ., F.R.S. 645 

first to Col. Bosville, and secondly to General Lewis Bayly 
Wallis. 2. Major Gilfrid, who died in infancy. 3. Major 
William. 4. Eobert Thomas, born August 17th, 1777, after- 
wards Greneral Sir Robert Wilson, M.P. 5. Jane Maria, who 
died in infancy. 6. Edward Lnmley. 7. Jane, married to 
the Rev. Herbert Randolph. 

He soon afterwards visited Yorkshire ; and at the houses 
of Sir Greo. Savile, Lord Mexboro', Lord Scarboro', Lord 
Irwin and others, painted as many portraits as produced him 
£600. 

He had been at work at intervals for fourteen years upon 
a large picture of " Belshazzar's Feast." This he now deter- 
mined to finish. He did so, and it was sold for £460. His 
own criticism of this picture is, that it had " many faults, 
but was not without considerable merit ; particularly in the 
light and shade, the disposition of the figures, and the richness 
of the colouring." It was painted entirely from imagination. 
He painted also the whole-length portrait of Shakspeare for 
the Town Hall of Stratford, on the occasion of the Jubilee in 
1769, at Grarrick's expense; and was present and assisted 
much in the celebration. It was at his suggestion, as they 
were returning to London in Grarrick's coach, that the Ode 
and Jubilee were brought upon the stage. This representation 
was very lucrative. In 1776, he published a work on phos- 
phoir, and sent an account of his discoveries respecting the 
properties of light, as they are exhibited by the effect of the 
coloured rays upon these substances, to most of the learned 
societies in Europe.^ Upon his return to London, in Aug., 
1776, he had the honour of exhibiting his " Belshazzar " 
before the king and queen. Their majesties both remarked 
that the picture was very rich without being gaudy, and that 
it had a magnificent effect. At this interview the king made 
many inquiries respecting Wilson's early life, habits of study, 
pursuits, &c. ; and specially asked whether at that time he 
had painted any other historical pictures. He mentioned that 
he was then engaged in painting one by request for the Hos- 
pital at Leeds, his native town, the subject he had chosen 

* The celebrated Professor Euler, of St. Petersburg, wrote a "Memoir" 
upon this paper, which was read to the Imperial Academy. He transmitted 
a copy of it to Wilson, who at the same time received notice that he was 
elected a member of the Academy. Flattering letters were also written to 
him from the Royal Academy at Berlin, the Academy of Sciences at Paris, 
and the Academy of Institutes at Boloaiia ; with warm congratulations from 
many learned persons at home and abroad, and especially from the President 
of the Royal Society. 



646 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

being the " Eaising of Jairus's Daughter ; " that he had made 
this choice because it gave a good opportunity of contrast in 
light and shade ; a manner which, as he was a great admirer 
and student of Rembrandt, was a favourite with him. He 
added, that as he conceived it difficult to give the face of 
Christ a proper expression, on that occasion he had shown 
only the back of the head, which gave him an opportunity of 
heightening the dignity of the figure by representing the 
whole light illuminating the chamber as proceeding from the 
face of Christ only ; and that by this means the imagination 
of the spectator was left to conceive what expression he 
pleased. Their majesties were much struck with this idea, 
and inquired closely into the proposed mode of treatment, &c. 
The king observed that he "supposed Mr. Wilson was a long 
time in settling the design and making alterations before he 
began to finish off a picture ? " To this he replied, that he 
"never made sketches or drawings for his pictures, but 
painted them on the canvas at once : that before he attempted 
anything, he settled the plan and conduct of the whole in his 
mind as to composition, light, shade, &c. ; and when this was 
done, sat down to sketch it with his pencil in colours, and 
finished it off at leisure." On the 20th of Jan., 1779, Grarrick 
died, and his funeral was celebrated with great magnificence 
in "Westminster Abbey. Wilson followed the remains of his 
friend to the grave ; and the king afterwards told a friend of 
his that "Dr. Samuel Johnson and Benjamin Wilson were 
the only two persons who shed tears" on that occasion. 
Grarrick had been a pupil of Johnson's in his early years. 
Among some remarks on the characters of his children at this 
time, he observes: "As to Robert, although he is but one 
year and a half old, he seems to be more lively than his 
brother, and likely to turn out a cleverer fellow."* In 1780, 

* A INIr. Berkenholt, the son of a merchant in Leeds, and an acquaintance 
of Wilson's, had been twenty years in the king's service without advance- 
ment, when a common dyer in the town discovered a method of dyeing cotton 
scarlet. This suggested to Wilson a means of helping his friend, and he 
advised him to apply himself to this invention ; telling him that "industry 
and attention, with patience, produce astonishing results in any study." At 
the same time he pointed out to him what authors he should read, made 
some chemical experiments for him, and explained the philosophy on which 
they seemed to depend, and the reason why animal substances were more 
apt to receive the scarlet dye than vegetable substances ; the object being 
to discover some means of giving to these latter the same repulsive property. 
Mr. Berkenholt soon made great advances in this direction, and succeeded in 
making a better scarlet than that of the Leeds inventor, besides improving 
several other colours. Wilson, through the instrumentality of Sir George 
Savile and others of his friends, assisted him in an application to Parliament 



BENJAMIN WILSON, ESQ., F.R.S. 647 

he published a small popular treatise, entitled, "A Short 
View of Electricity." On the 12th of Aug., in this year, he 
set out for Windsor with his family, Sir Grey Cowper having 
lent him his apartments in the castle. As he was passing the 
queen's lodge on the following day, the king called him by name 
from the window ; and, after inquiring whether the children 
were his, and "praising Robert who would not pull his hat off," 
he " called to the queen who was dressing, to see Bob.' 1 On the 
14th, Wilson presented his book to the king, the queen, the 
Prince of Wales, and the Bishop of Osnaburg. The whole 
royal family, and the queen especially, were "exceedingly 
gracious ; " and one day on the terrace " the King took hold 
of Bob and introduced him to those who were in attendance 
as an exceeding fine boy.'' 1 Frequently during this visit he was 
admitted to familiar intercourse "with the king and several 
of the princes," who all treated him with marked attention 
and kindness. Prince Adolphus once, " when walking hand 
in hand with Major," said, "he supposed that Eobert was a 
very funny boy." "The next year," his father writes, 
" Prince Octavius wanted to take Bob's hand, but he refused 
by taking away his hand." These are small incidents of 
childhood, but they indicate the early bent of character.* 

for a reward for his discoveries. They were tested before the Lords of the 
Treasury, Lord North being present ; and, upon the report, five thousand 
pounds were awarded to him. — For additional particulars, see page 187. 

* After the brief references to his favourite son's early character quoted 
above, no further mention is made of him in the manuscript ; but one tradi- 
tional fact may be added, illustrating the spirit and principles which through 
life animated Sir Robert Wilson as a soldier and dignified him as a man. 
When he was first sent to Westminster he found his elder brother subject to 
the capricious tyranny too often exercised by the stronger over the weaker 
in a public school. He at once resented the wrong, and "fought thirty boys, 
one after another, in his brother's defence." 

Extracts from a Journal kept during a Tour of Visits by his son, General 
Sir Robert Wilson, commencing Aug. 16, 1825, and ending Ja,n. 4, 1826 : 

" Dec. 4, 1825. — To Grove Hall, the seat of Mr. Lee, a connection by 
marriage. Mr. Lee's father, aged eighty -five, told me that he remembered 
my grandfather, his uncommon stature and remarkable beard, very well. 
That he remembered also Mill Hill House, Leeds, which was sold to the 
Recorder when my uncle, who was the first English merchant, settled in 
Russia, and whom Peter the Great used familiarly to call "his English 
Jack," was shipwrecked. In the wreck of this vessel, property of my 
grandfather's to a great amount was lost ; and this first caused the mis- 
fortunes of the family. The lands then sold are now in the possession of 
Mr. C. Wilson, of Ledstone ; the son of the Bishop of Bristol, and grandson 
of the Recorder. Mr. Fountaine Wilson is also a grandson of the Recorder, 
by another son ; and has, it is said, property to the value of £40,000 per 
annum. My grandfather was reported to be the richest merchant in Leeds 
of his time ; and, Mr Lee says, was greatly esteemed by high and low. He 
lived till he was 110 years of age. 



648 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

The condescension and kindness of the king and the royal 
family continued to the time of Wilson's death, June 6th, 
1788, but the manuscript ends abruptly with the year 1783. 
Of mild philosophy and courteous manners, faithful to duty 
in all the relations of life, beloved by his family, valued by his 
friends, sufficiently prosperous in the world, and useful in his 
generation, he left to his children and his children's children 
a legacy of honest fame ; and one more example, brought 
home to their own bosoms, of the power of the human will to 
accomplish all that it proposes for human happiness, in 
accordance with God's will and under His blessing. 

Dec. 5. — Went to Leeds and saw the Mill Hill property, now worth, as I 
am informed, £100,000. The best hotel in the town is built on the site of 
Mill Hill House. Went to the Infirmary ; to which my father gave his 
picture of the "Raising of Jairus' Daughter." The "daughter" in this 
picture was painted to represent my mother in her youth. She was only 
forty-five when she died. On looking at the picture I was instantly and 
forcibly struck by the likeness to my own eldest daughter. It is still a family 
portrait. The place of painter to the Board of Ordnance, procured for my 
father by the Duke of York, was worth, it is said, £7000 per annum in time 
of war, and £4000 in time of peace. My father was the first Englishman 
ever made a member of the University of Upsal. The gold medal, and 
the diploma, of Russia, signed by the Empress Catherine, are in my 
possession. — R. W. " 



.A. la X B T 

OF SOME OP THE PRINCIPAL 

POKTKAITS,* STATUES, AND BUSTS, 

OF THE WORTHIES OF LEEDS, 
Arranged in Chronological Order. 



A.D. 

1413. Sir Wm. Gascoigne.f — 1. S. Harding, sc. From his monument at 
Harewood, in Yorkshire. 
2. Another in Gent. Mag. for 1781, vol. 51, p. 516. 

* In every age and nation, distinguished for arts and learning, the inclination of 
transmitting the memory, and even the features of illustrious persons to posterity, 
has uniformly prevailed. The greatest poets, orators, and historians, were contem- 
poraries- with the most celebrated painters, statuaries, and engravers of gems and 
medals ; and the desire to be acquainted with a man's aspect has ever risen, in 
proportion to the known excellence of his character, and the admiration of his 
writings. As to the utility of a collection of English portraits, it may perhaps be 
sufficient to say, that several gentlemen of distinguished parts and learning, now 
living, have made considerable collections of this kind. But I shall borrow the 
following quotation from a late author (Oldys), who says that a collection is useful :— 
"Not so much for the bare entertainment and curiosity that there is in such artful 
and beautiful imitations, or the less solid intelligence of the different modes or 
habits, and fashions of the times, as the more important direction and settlement of 
the ideas, upon the true form and features of any worthy and famous persons 
represented ; and also the distinction of families, and men of superior merit in them, 
by their arms and mottos, or emblematical allusions to their actions, writings, &c, 
the inscriptions of their titles of honour, preferments, and most signal services, or 
other observables, with the chronological particulars thereof : as of their birth, age, 
death, &c. , and the short character or encomiums of them, often subjoined in verse 
or prose ; besides the name of painter, designer, graver, &c, and the dates also of 
their performance : whereby a single print, when an artist is thoroughly apprehen- 
sive, or well-advised, in what he is about, and will embrace the advantages or 
opportunities he ought, to answer the expectations of the curious in their various 
tastes and enquiries, may become a rich and plenteous banquet, a full-spread table 
of choice and useful communications, not only most delightful to the eye, but most 
instructive to the mind;" To this Granger adds, that in a collection of engraved 
portraits, the contents of many galleries are reduced into the compass of a few 
volumes'; and the .portraits of eminent persons, who distinguished themselves for a 
long succession of ages, may be turned over in a few hours. " Another advantage 
attending such an assemblage is, that the methodical arrangement has a surprising 
effect upon the memory. We see the celebrated contemporaries of every age almost 
at one view ; and the mind is insensibly led to the history of that period. I may add 
to these, an important circumstance, which is, the power that such a collection will 
have in awakening genius. A skilful preceptor will presently perceive the true bent 
of the temper of his pupil, by his being struck with a Blake or a Boyle, a Hyde or a 
Milton, &c." General Fairfax made a collection of engraved portraits of warriors.— 
See also Leeds Worthies, Note 185, p. 534, &c. 

t A large fresco of "Prince Henry's Submission to the Law," has been ably 
painted for the new palace at Westminster, by the well-known artist, C. W. Cope, 
Esq., R.A., who is a native of Leeds. 



650 BIOGRAPHIA LEODlENSIS, 

A.D. 
1566. Henry j Stuart, Earl of Damley ; and his brother Charles Stuart ; 

1. in the collection of Her Majesty, at Hampton Court, painted 
by L. de Heere, full-length miniature portraits, standing in a 
gallery ; Darnley, aged 17, in black doublet and hose, close 
white neck and wrist frills ; right hand on his brother's 
shoulder; Charles Stuart, afterwards Earl of Lennox (and father 
of Lady Arabella Stuart, Nos. 410 and 422), aged 6, in black 
gown to the ground; inscribed with names, age, &c, 
"Thesbethe sones of the," &c, and dated 156*3. Panel, 
241 ^y 141 i n-j N a 322 in South Kensington Exhibition of 
National Portraits, 1866. 

2. Another, orig. in the possession of Mr. Keith Stewart 
Mackenzie, painter unknown, to knees, miniature, full face ; 
dark dress and cap, with white feather, glove in left hand ; 
dated 1555, age 9. Panel, 8J by 7 in. No. 323, in South 
Kensington Catalogue. 

3. Henry Stuart, Earl of Damley ; King of Scotland as 
the husband of Mary Queen of Scots ; son of Matthew 
Stuart, Earl of Lennox (grandson of Margaret, Queen of 
James IY. of Scotland, No. 90) ; born 1546, at Temple- 
Newsam, near Leeds, where his father had taken refuge from 
his political rivals ; in 1565, Mary Queen of Scots saw him, 
and married him in July of that year, His share in the assassi- 
nation of Eizzio, Mary's favourite (No. 317), was followed 
nearly a year afterwards, 9 Feb. 1567, by his own murder in 
the lonely house of Kirk of Field, near Edinburgh. . In the 
collection of the Earl of Home, painter unknown ; full-length, 
as a boy ; large falling lace collar, gold-embroidered dress and 
red-lined cloak, hat (with large plume) in left hand. Canvas, 
69 by 38 in. No. 326 in S. K. Cat. 

4. Henry, Lord Darnley, (titular) King of Scotland, anno dom. 
1563, set. 17, by Lucas de Heere. G. Vertue, sc. From an 
original at St. James's. 

5. Another as Duke of Albany, &c, 4to. Sold by Geo. Humble. 

6. Lord Darnley' s Cenotaph ; by it are kneeling, Matthew, Earl 
of Lennox,* and Margaret his wife+ ; Chas. their son, and the 
King of Scots their grandson, a child. Levinus Venetianus, 
or Vogelarius, p. G. Vertue, sc. 

7. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, kneeling with Chas. Earl of 
Lennox, 8vo. Birrell. 

8. Henry Stuart, with cap and feather, oval. James Holbrook ; 

" are to be solde by Thos. Jenner, at ye White Beare, in 
Cornhill ;" rare. 

9. Another in " Noble Authors, " by Park. Eivers, sc. 

10. Another, in Lodge's Portraits, vol. 2, p. 27, from (11) the 
original in the collection of the late Earl of Seaforth, at 
Brahan Castle. 

* 1. Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox (his father), Regent of Scotland. His 
portrait is with Lord Darnley's cenotaph. See No. 6 above. 

2. Another, with his autograph. Thane, exc. 

t Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (his mother), orig. No. 87, in possession of 
H. W. Diamond, M.D., of Twickenham. The inscription on her tomb in Westminster 
Abbey (see also her effigies) shows that by descent or alliance she was connected with 
14 Kings or Queens. 

For original portraits of his wife, Mary Sttiart, Queen of Scots, see in S. K, 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 651 

A.D. 

1630. Rt. Hon. Sir John, Lord Saville* 
1632. Edward Fairfax, translator of Tasso, &c. 

1648. Rev. Henry Burton, B.D.^C 1. W. Hollar, f., a small oval, with cap, 
ruff, hair, whiskers, and beard, under which is some account 
of him. 

2. Henricus Burton, Theol. Cantabrigiensis, &c. Glover, f., 4to. 

3. Another, set. 63, 1640 ; four English verses ; large oval. 

4. Another, as Hector of St. Matthew's, Friday Street, 8vo., 
in Clarendon. 

5. Another, with Greek inscription at top ; beneath, six English 
verses, in the manner of Marshall ; oval ; scarce. 

6. Another, with an account of his sufferings. J. Berry, sc. 

1652. Ralph, Lord Hopton, brave Royalist officer ; served in the low 
countries in the same camp with Sir W. "Waller ; married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Arthur Capell, and widow of Sir 
Justinian Lewen ; victorious at Stratton, 1643 ; created 
Baron Hopton same year ; defeated by Waller, at Alresford, 
1644, and by Fairfax, at Torrington, 1645 ; followed Charles 
to Jersey; died at Bruges, in Sept., 1652: 1. orig., half- 
length ; black dress ; port-crayon in right hand. Canvas, 
33 by 28 in. In the possession of Mr. W. B. Stopford. 
No. 774 in S. K. Cat. 

2. Sir Ralph, Lord Hopton, Baron of Stratton ; in armour ; 
band, &c. 

3. Another, as His Majesty's General of the Western army, 
with hair, whiskers, peaked beard, band, large hat in his 
lap, from a painting in Sir Jacob Astley's hands. Vander- 
gucht, sc, 8vo. 

4. Another, from a picture at the Hon. Arthur Onslow's. 
Vertue, sc. ; one of the set of Loyalists. 

Cat., Nos. 305, in collection of Marquis of Salisbury ; 309, Earl of Cathcart ; 310, Mr. 
E. Vernon Wentworth; 311, Earl of Leven and Melville; 312, Jesus Coll., Camb. ; 
314, Mr. Keith Stewart Mackenzie (Brahan portrait) ; 316, Capt. G-. H. W. Carew 
(with her son James VI., as a child); 318, Bodleian Library, Oxford; 319, Scottish 
Corporation ; 320, Lord Taunton ; 321, Her Majesty's (Hampton Court) ; 324, Mrs. 
Michie Eorbes ; 328, Mr. A. Stuart, of Inchbreck. Eor much additional information 
respecting Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, see Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vi. 36, 
78 ; Moroni's Portrait, vi. 100 ; 2nd Series, iii. 448, 511 ; iv. 6, 13, 20, 32, 72, 194, 272, 
368, 442 ; v. 272, 505, 525 ; Bodleian, x. 87, &c. 

Eor orig. portraits of his son, King James I., see Nos. 420, in the collection of the 
Society of Apothecaries ; 421, Mr. David Laing ; 439, Her Majesty's (Windsor Castle) ; 
James I. at his father's (Lord Darnley's) tomb ; small life-size figure kneeling ; 
Darnley's father and mother, and younger brother (?) are kneeling at the head of the 
tomb.— Canvas, 57 by 89 in. 477, Earl of Craven ; 482, Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, 
Bart. Eor an engraving of the murder of Darnley, &c, see Chalmers' Life of Mary, 
Queen of Scots, vol. 1, p. 204. 

* Sir Henry Savile, Knt., scholar and mathematician; born at Bradley, York- 
shire, 1549 ; studied at Oxford ; warden of Merton Coll. for 36 years ; and for 26 years 
provost of Eton, the statute requiring priest's orders being specially dispensed with ; 
knighted by James I. ; one of the translators of the Bible ; published at Eton his 
edition of the works of St. Chrysostom ; died there, 1622 ; founded the Savilian 
Professorships, Oxford. Orig. full-length, dated 1621, age 72, at Eton College. JSTo. 
475 in S. K. Cat. See also Granger, Noble, &c. No. 928, Geo. Saville, 1st Marquis of 
Halifax, orig. half-length, painted by Sir Peter Lely, in the collection of the Duke of 
Devonshire. No. 1030, Lord Geo. Saville, son of the above ; orig. in the collection of 
the Earl of Hardwicke. 

t Rev. Henry Burton, Clerk of the Closet to Charles I., and Rector of St. 



652 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

5. There is also a print of him on horseback, by Skerwin. 

6. Another, as Governor of Bristol, &c. , whole length, singularly 
dressed ; troops marching in the background. Sold by W. 
Bentley ; very rare. 

7. Another, in Lodge's* Portraits of Illustrious Personages, 
vol. 5, p. 25, engraved by Phillibrown, from (8) the original 
by Vandyke (1652), in the collection of the late Earl of 
Egremont, at Petworth. 

1653. Richard Deane, General and Admiral ; 1. from a drawing in the 
King's Clarendon, 4to. 

2. Another, with his seal and autograph. R. Grave, sc. , 8vo. 

3. An original oil-painting, in possession of Win. Pollard, Esq., 
of Allerton Grange, Chapeltown, near Leeds. 

4. Dean, Admiral ; 4to., p. b.L, half-length, in armour, bare- 
headed. In possession of the Compiler. 

1655. Sir Arthur Ingram,^ in possession of H. C. Meynell Ingram. Esq., 
at Temple-newsam, near Leeds. 

1655. Henry Tilson,X Bishop of Elphin, &c. 

1656. John Harrison, of Leeds, Esq., &c, 1. Avith "Templum pro 

tmnulo ;" rare. 

Matthew's, Friday Street, London. 1. An oval, 4to., very fine, Glover, 5s. 2. 
Another, oval, 4 English verses beneath, 8vo., fine and scarce, 5s. 3. Another, oval, 
six English verses, 8vo., very fine: all on sale by John Stenson, Battersea. 

4. Another, "Vera effigies docti viri Henrici Burtoni, Theol. Cantab." The lively 
portraiture of Henry Burton, Eector, &c. 

" Look on and welcome for thou may'st be bold, 
This spiritual physician to behold ; 
Come nearer yet, such doctrine he imparts, 
As cures sick souls, and wins the people's hearts." 

G. Glover, f. In an oval frame, with black cap, ruff, and book in his hand. 

5. Another, age 63, 1640. In an oval frame, with black skull cap, frills, and beard. 

" Lo ! here the shadow of a man set free, 

From death, from grave; — dost ask how this could be? 
Doubt not ;— the virtue of Christ's death hath done it, 
And powerful prayers of his redeem'd ones won it." 
In possession of the Compiler. 

*Hopton (Ralph), Lord, died 1652. 1. From Lodge, india proof, 4to., 2s. ; 
Vandyck, p. ; Cochrane, sc. 2. Another, p.b.l., royal 4to., 3s., do. 3. Another, the 
large series, india proof, fol., 5s. ; Vandyck, p. ; Parker, sc— On sale, by John 
Stenson, Battersea, London. 

t Henry Ingram, his son, 1st Viscount Irvine, 1666 ; original at Temple-JSTewsam, 
near Leeds. 

t Nathaniel Tilson and family (son of Bishop Tilson) ; his wife, daughter, son 
Henry, and younger son. Three-quarter length figures. Canvas, 50 by 60 in. Painted 
by Henry Tilson, in possession of Mr. Thos. Shaen Carter ; No. 980 in S. K Cat. 

Henry Tilson, born in Yorkshire, 1619 ; son of Nathaniel, grandson of Bp. Tilson, 
pupil of Sir Peter Lely ; executed portraits in oil and pastel with considerable skill ; 
died in 1655. Chambers engraved his portrait. Original, painted by himself ; also 
in possession of Mr. T. S. Carter ; IS o. 985 in S. K. Cat. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 653 

A.D, 

2. John Harrison, &c* by W. Richardson, 4to. 

3. Another, from an original picture, R. "Wilkinson, exc, 4to. 

4. There is a full-length portrait of Alderman Harrison, in his 
official robes, in the Council- chamber at the Leeds Town Hall. 

5. Another, in "Whitaker's Thoresby's Due. Leod., p. 13, from 
the above original, formerly in St. John's Church, drawn by 
Thos. Robinson, and engraved (with permission) by W. 
Holl, 1816, 4to. 

6. John Harrison, Esq., that grand benefactor to the town of 
Leeds, died Oct. 29, 1656, age 77 ; Delatre sculp., published 
by Robt. Wilkinson, Cornhill, in Feb., 1812 ; in possession 
of the compiler, &c. 

7. Another, large proof, before letters, price 2s. 6d. On sale by 
John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly. 

8. Another, republished by ¥m. Dawson Bellhouse, Leeds ; 
1865, in possession of the compiler, &c. 

9. Another, photographed for album. 

10. Another, in "London Society," for Oct., 1866, p. 334. 

1670. Adam Baynes, Esq., M.P., 1. full-length portrait, by Sir Peter Lely, 
in possession of E. R. Baynes, Esq., of Aylesbury. 
2. Martha Dawson (his wife), original by Yandyke, in possession 
of E. R. Baynes, Esq., of Church Street, Aylesbury. 



* The Harrison Portrait. 

By the late Eliza Craven Green, of St. John's Place, Leeds, from the Leeds Intell., 
for Nov. 10, 1860. 

" Yes ! give him place amongst Ms nohle Peers, 

Imperial magnates of the world of mind, 
Knights 'without fear ' that took up cross and sword 

To conquer wrong— to help and teach mankind. 
Room for our ancient townsman on the wall, 
Tor never worthier grae'd a civic hall. 

Not only to the poor, who lack'd he gave 

Shelter and food— relief and sure abode ; 
But the pure manna of the life eternal 

And treasures beyond price his hand bestow'd : 
The church, the pastor, and the school— a chain 
Of triple-gold, Faith's diamond to sustain. 

Receive him, worthies /—ye, whose fame self-wrought 

To our proud archives newer glories lend. 
Though rude the art thatlimn'd the 'portraiture,' 

We know him, benefactor, patron, friend ; 
And the ripe harvest of his kindly deeds 
Lies garner'd in the heart of grateful Leeds ! " 



654 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 
1671. Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax* born 1611, at Denton, Yorkshire ; son 

of Ferdinando,t2nd Lord Fairfax, and Lady Mary Sheffield ; 

educated at St. John's, Cambridge ; served in Holland, under 

Horatio, Lord Vere, whose daughter Anne he married ; 

served under his father at Marston Moor, 1644, &c. ; 

succeeded Earl of Essex as commander of Parliamentary 

army ; commanded at Naseby, 1645 ; received Charles I. 

from the Scots, near Nottingham, 1647 ; refused to act on 

Charles's trial ; a commissioner for promoting Eestoration ; 

died 12th Nov., 1671 ; 1. orig. half-length ; dark armour ; 

baton in right hand. Canvas 49 by 40 in. Painter unknown. 

No. 706 in S. K. Cat. In possession of Thos. Fairfax, Esq., 

of Newton Kyme, near Tadcaster. 

^Fairfax (Thos., Lord), celebrated General : 1.' in an oval, in armour, fine impression, 
Fairthorne, 21s. 2. Another, with warlike implements, &c, and an anagram, 4to., 
fine and scarce, 7s. 3. Another, without implements, la. margin, 4to, fine and scarce, 
7s. 6d. 4. Another, brilliant proof before all letters, Houbraken, 21s. 5. Another, 
nat. at Denton, 1611, from a miniature, mez., 4to., Is. 6d., Earlom. 6. Another, do., 
p.b.l., 2s., do. 7. Another, do., 4to., Is. 6d., Bocquet. All on sale, by Jno. Stenson. 
8. Another, proof, on India paper, Is. 6d. On sale by Jno. Camden Hotten. 

\Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax (his father), son of Thomas, 1st Lord Fairfax, 
and Ellen Ashe ; an active Parliamentary general ; defeated Earl of Newcastle, 1642 ; 
Lord Byron, 1643 ; Col. Bellasyse, at Selby, 11th April, 1644 ; commanded at Marston 
Moor, 2nd July, 1644; died 13th March, 1648. 1. An orig., half-length, seated, in 
robes ; armour beside him ; signed " F. Bower," painter. Canvas 52 by 42 in. Also 
in the possession of Thos. Fairfax, Esq., of Newton Kyme, near Tadcaster. No. 
707 in S. K. Cat. 2. Another, sold by Hen. Dochen ; whole length, 4to. 3. Another, 
T. Worlidge, fecit. 4. Another, whole length, by W. Richardson. 5. Another, 
in Simon's " Medals," plate ii. 6. Another, a small head. 7. Another, published 
April 1, 1800, by W. Richardson, 31, Strand. 8. Another, ob. York, 1647, mezz., 
4to., 2s. On sale, by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

Anne Vere, Lady Fairfax (his wife), daughter and co-heir of Horatio, Lord 
Vere, of Tilbury, and 1st wife of Thos., 3rd Lord Fairfax; disapproved of the pro- 
ceedings of Republican party, &c. ; 1. An orig. in possession of Mr. E. Wood ; painted 
by Mary Beale; bust, low dress, blue scarf. Canvas, 29 by 24 in. No. 701 in 
S. K. Cat. 2. An etching in an oval, Claussin, fecit, 4to. 3. Another, mezz., 4to. 
Woodburn, &c. 4. Another, over, see No. 30. 5. Another, mezz., 4to., Is. 6d. 
C. Turner.— On sale, by Jno. Stenson. 

Mary Fairfax, Duchess of Buckingham (his only daughter), born 1639 ; daughter and 
heiress of Thomas 3rd Lord Fairfax, and Anne Vere ; married to George Viiliers, 2nd 
Duke of Buckingham, 6th Sept. 1657 ; " a most virtuous and pious lady, in a vicious age 
and court." By this marriage, the Duke became repossessed of the forfeited estates of 
his fathers, granted by Parliament to Lord Fairfax ; died 1705. 

1. An orig. half-length, blue low dress ; open sleeves ; basket of roses. Canvas, 
48 by 37 in. In the collection of Lord Lyttelton. No. 902 in S. K. Cat. 

2. Another orig. portrait, painter unknown ; bust, looking to left ; low white 
dress. Canvas, 30 by 25 in. In the collection of C. Wykeham Martin, Esq., MP., 
of Leeds Castle, near Maidstone. No. 1001 in S. K. Cat. 3. Another, S. Cooper, p., 
Worlidge, f . ; a small oval, from an original picture at Strawberry Hill. 4. Another, 
Claussin, fecit, in Harding's " Grammont," 4to, 1793. 

For orig.- portraits of some of his ancestors, see in S. K. Cat., No. 425, Sir Thomas 
Fairfax, Knt., of Denton, Yorkshire ; also in the collection of Chas. W. Martin, Esq., 
M.P. ; No. 555, Thomas, 1st Lord Fairfax (1627), son of the above Sir Thomas, in 
possession of Thomas Fairfax, Esq. ; No. 686, Sir Wm. Fairfax, Knt., son of Sir P. 
Fairfax, of Steeton, Yorkshire, and the Hon. Frances Sheffield ; married a daughter 
of Sir T. Chaloner, of Guisboro', Yorkshire ; died in October, 1644 ; also in possession 
of Thomas Fairfax, Esq. See also Ames's list. No. 708, Sir Thomas (and Lady) 
Fairfax, of Walton, Yorkshire, created Viscount Fairfax in 1629 , painted by Wm. 
Dobson ; in possession of Mr. Chas. Gregory Fairfax. There is also in the collection 
of Thomas Fairfax, Esq., of Newton Kyme, near Tadcaster, a portrait of Admiral 
Robert Fairfax, who commanded the "Torbay," at the taking of Gibraltar; was a 
Commissioner of the Admiralty Board ; and member of the city of York in Queen 
Anne's time. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 655 

2. Sir Thomas Fairfax, general of the forces raised by the Parlia- 
ment. Ed. Bowers, p. ; W. Marshall, sc. On horseback, 
as frontispiece to " England's Recovery, being the Hist, of 
the Army under the Conduct of Sir Thos. Eairi'ax ;" 
folio, 1647. 

3. Thos., (afterward) Lord Fairfax. Houbraken, sc, in 
Houbraken's Illust. Heads, &c, by Dr. Birch, p. 129, from 
the original painting by Cooper, formerly in the collection 
of Brian Fairfax, Esq. 

4. Another, from a miniature, in the hands of Brian Fairfax, 
Esq. Hulett, sc. In Peck's "Life of Cromwell," 4to. 
The original picture was painted by Heywood. 

&. Another, "Walker p. Eairthorne sc, in armour : half-sheet, 
scarce (the first impressions sold by Eowlett, the second by 
Thos. Hinde). This is copied by Vandergucht, in 8vo. 

6. Another, etched by Streeter (afterwards Serjeant-painter to 
Charles II.), in an oval of palms. This is in the view of the 
Battle of Naseby, in "England's Recovery," &c. 

7. Another, 1648, Hollar, f., 12mo., in an oval, Joan Huyssens 
excudit Antwerpise. See Ames's List. 

8. Another, as General, in a cloak, staif., &c, in Hollar's 
manner, 8vo. 

9. Another, with eight verses, in high Dutch, large 8vo. 

10. Another, on horseback, half-sheet, sold by Thos. Hinde. 

11. Another, on horseback, 4to., sold by Stent. 

12. Another, with anagramma, Fax erit famosa, 4to. 

13. Another, with "Csetera JSTorunt," &c, large 4to. 

14. Another, as Generalis Exercituum, &c, 12mo. 

15. Another, Moncornet, exc, 4to. 

16. Another, as " Novae Anglicanse Reipublicse, &c, Capitaneus 
Generalis. " 

17. Another, as Lord-General of the forces, with sash about his 
waist, 4to. 

18. Another, with a sash about his waist ; Vertue sc Copied 
from the foregoing. 

19. Another, profile, with hat ; holding his sword and papers ; 
Six Dutch verses. Savoy exc. , large 4to. A curious print. 

20. Another, T. Worlidge, f., SJ inches by 2£. 

21. Another, as Baron of Cameron, &c, in armour. 

22. Another, with a Hebrew inscription, in English: "His 
integrity hath broken the wild ass," 4to. 

23. Another, Bocquet sc. In " Noble Authors," by Park. 

24. Another, as General du Parlement, in Larrey's "History of 
England." 

25. Another, holding the head of Charles I. by the hair, in his 
right hand, and an axe in his left. The print, which seems 
to be Dutch, is inscribed "Carnifex Regis Angliee," 8vo. 

26. Another, as ' ' General der Armee des Parlements in Engelant" ; 
small, very old. 

27. Another, Thos. "Worlidge, fecit, 1755, from an original of 
Cowper's, in the collection of Geo. Scott, Esq. ; in possession 
of the Compiler. 

28. Another, 8vo., half-length, in armour, published by John 
Scott, in June, 1803, in possession of the Compiler. 



656 P.IOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

29. Another, J. W. Cook, sc., from (30) an original portrait, 
painted by Gerard Zoust, circa 1656, formerly at Leeds 
Castle ; published by Richard Bentley, 1848, and prefixed 
to vol i. of Fairfax Correspondence. Lady Fairfax, do. 
prefixed to vol. ii. 
31. Another, original life-size, half length, probably by the above 
painter, in possession of Jas. Thompson, tax collector, Leeds. 

1675. Rev. Francis Roberts, M.A., &c, aet. 40, 1649 ; before his "Clavis 
Biblioruni ; or Key of the Bible," by T. Cross, sc, with cap, 
whiskers, peaked beard, bands, cloak, and a book in his 
right hand. 

2. Franciscus Roberts, set. 48, 1656 ; before his ' ' Clavis Biblioram, " 
&c. 3. Another, before his " Communicant instructed, " 
8vo., 1651, &c. 

1684. Sir George Rawdon, Knt. and Bart. "The true and lively 
Pourtraiture of that valliant and worthy Patriot and 
Captaine." setatis sua?, 63. With coat of arms and motto, 
R. White, delin. et sculp. , 4to, in possession of Compiler. 
2. Another, smaller. 

1689. Mr. William, Lodge, 1. Mezz, in a fur cap, neck-cloth, &c. (F. 
Place), anonymous. 
2. Another, in the same plate with Vanderbank, in Mr. Walpole's 
" Catalogue of Engravers." 

1689. Rt. Rev. John Lake, D.D., Vicar of Leeds, afterwards Bp. of 
Chichester ; 1. as "one of the Seven Bishops. " 

2. "Johannes Lake, Cicestrensis Episcopus," Logan sc, 1688. 

3. John Lake, &c, by J. Sturt, in an oval, with black cap and 
bands. 

4. Another, in a circle, by Overton. 

5. Another, B. White, sc, in oval frame, black cap, and bands. 

1705.* Sir William Loivther, M.P. 

1705. Rev. Christopher Nesse, A.M., Lecturer at Leeds Parish Church, 
&c, set. 56, 1678 ; in an oval frame, with bands, &c, prefixed 
to his works. 

1708. Rev. Edmond EieJczringill, set. 76, 1706 ; S. Tull, p. ; J. Nutting, 
sc. 2. Another, altered from Sacheverel. 



* 1675. Sir John Lowther, Bart, o\>. 1675, set. 70, 1. orig. painted byLely;2 
do. mezz. Browne, exc 

1700. John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, Eivers direx. ; from a picture at 
Longleat. See Atkinson's Worthies of Westmoreland ; also account of Lowther Castle, 
for "Family Portraits," in Art Journal for Sept. 1st, 1865, &c 

Another, orig. bust, dark greenish embroidered dress, canvas 28 by 25 in. ; in 
the collection of the Earl of Derby, K.G. See 2nd S. K. Cat., No. 71. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 657 

A.D. 

1712. Sir Thos. Osborne* Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer, &c. ; 1, 
Lely, p. ; Blooteling, f. ; scarce. 

2. Another, by "W. Faitliorne. 

3. Another (as 1st Duke of Leeds), by R. "White, in oval frame, 

long wig, laced neckcloth, collar of the Garter, arms, &c. 

4. Another, in "Noble Authors," by Park. 

5. Another, pnb. by J. Scott, Strand, in June, 1803. In 
possession of compiler. 

6. Another, in Lodge's "Portraits," vol. vii., p. 19 ; engraved 
by Phillibrown, from (7) the painting by V. Yaart (1712). 
In the collection of his Grace the Duke of Leeds, at Hornby 
Castle, in this county. 

8. Another, orig. half length, seated, robes and collar, K. G. , 

white stick in right hand, canvas 48 by 40 in. In the 
collection of the Earl of Derby, K.G. See 2nd S. K. Cat, 
No. 50. 

9. Another, from Lodge, India proof, 4to., Freeman, 2s. On 
sale by Stenson, Battersea. 

1716. Robert Kitchingman, Esq.f 

1725. Ralph Thoresby, Esq., F.R.S., Historian of Leeds, &c. 1. An orig. 
bnst, with dark wig, in brown dress ; canvas 21 by 17A in. 
In the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries, London. 
See 2nd S. K. Cat., No. 127. 2. Another, orig. portrait, in 
the aldermanic dress of the time. In the possession of 
Mr. F. Nicholson Settle, of Little London, Leeds. 

3. " Radulphus Thoresby, Leodiensis, S.R.S., 1712 ;" in an 
oval, with neckcloth, coat of arms and motto ; G. Vertue, 
sc. ; prefixed to his Due. Leocl., fol. 1715 ; in Wilson's Hist. 
Regs. , and in possession of compiler, &c. 

4. Ralph Thoresby, Esq., of Leeds, ob. 1725, set. 67 ; pub. by 
"Win. Biehardson, Strand, in 1812. In possession of Mr. 
Calvert, Commercial-street, Leeds. 

5. Another, pub. by Richardson, in Sept., 1802. 

6. Another, India proof, 4to., Richardson, 2s. On sale by 
Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

7. Another, E. Swaine, sc, with fac simile of autograph, &c. 
In possession of Mr. Calvert, Leeds. 



* Osborne, Peregrine, 2nd Duke of Leeds, print on sale by Jno. Camden Hotten. 
2. Another, as lord admiral, ob. 1729, p.b.l., 4to. On sale by Jno. Stenson, 
Battersea. 

Wm. Henry, Lord Osborne, eldest son of Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of 
Leeds ; died unmarried ; with his sisters, Lady Bridget and Lady Mary, whole 
length, mezz. ; T. Hill, p. ; Williams, sc. 

Lady Mary Osborne, Countess of Dundonald (and Duchess of Beaufort), with 
her brother, Peregrine Hyde, 3rd Duke of Leeds, without name, &c. 

1799. Francis Godolphin, 5th Duke of Leeds, Sec. of State ; large and fine, 
full length, in his robes, after Lawrence ; engraved by Meadows, 1792 ; price 4s. 6d. ; 
on sale by J. C. Hotten. 

1 1722. James Eitchingham, Esq. , twice mayor of Leeds, &c. An orig. half- 
length, long black hair, bands, and book ; in the possession of Mr. Thos. Scholefield, 
solicitor, St. John Street, Leeds. 



658 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

8. Another, oval ; J. Baker, sc, Islington, from an engraving 
by Vertue, pub. by Robt. Wilkinson, Cornhill, in June, 
1813. In possession of Mr. Calvert ; one by Baker, large 
and fine, price 2s. ; on sale by J. C. Hotten. 

9. " Badulphus Thoresby, Leodiensis, S.R.S.," engraved by W. 
Holl, and prefixed to the 2nd edition of his Due. Leod., by 
Dr. Whitaker, in 1816. 

10. Another, engraved by T. A. Dean, prefixed to his Diary, by 
the Rev. Jos. Hunter, pub. by Colburn and Bentley, in 
1830. 

11. No. 9, republished by Win. Dawson Bellhouse, Leeds, 1865. 
In possession of compiler, &c. 

12. Ditto, photographed for album. 

1728. Rev. Joseph Boyse, author, &c, born at Leeds, in Jan., 1660, 

prefixed to his works. 

1729. William Congreve, Esq., dramatic poet, born at Bardsey, near 

Leeds, in 1670. 1. The best portrait of him is that amongst 
the Kit-cat series, presented to Jacob Tonson, and now at 
Bayfordbury, Herts. 

2. Another authority, in " Notes and Queries, " says that the 
best portrait of Congreve is undoubtedly that by Sir Godfrey 
Kneller, now in the possession of the junior branch of the 
family, at Congreve, in Staffordshire, or at Barton, in 
Cheshire. 

3. Another, orig. (to waist, turned to left, pointing with right 
hand); signed, "G. Kneller, 1709 ;" canvas, 36 by 28in. In 
the collection of W. R, Baker, Esq. See 2nd S. K. Cat., No. 116. 

4. There is an engraved portrait in the British Biog., vol. viii. 

5. Another, from the painting by Godfrey Kneller, Bart. ; 
engraved by T. Chambers. In possession of compiler. 

6. Another, pointing with his finger, a Kit-Cat, mezz. ; G. 
Kneller, p. 1709 ; Faber, sc, 1733. A square print, stand- 
ing aside, in a long wig, and open collar, with arms. 

7. Another, prefixed to his "Letters on Love," &c, 1718, 
12mo. ; G. Kneller, p. ; J. Smith, sc, 1710. 

8. Another, mezz. ; Kneller, p. ; J. Smith, sc, 1728. 

9. Another, with Addison, Steele, and Rowe. 

10. Another, with Addison, Prior, and Pope. 

11. Another, M. Vandergucht, sc. ; with long wig and open collar. 

12. Another, small oval (with Biog. Sketch) ; Sir G. Kneller, p. ; 
Birrell, sc. ; published by Harrison & Co., in November, 
1794 ; in possession of compiler. 

13. Another, engraver's proof, before letters, 8vo., 2s. On sale 
by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

1736. Eev. Henry Robinson, M.A. (Founder of Trinity Church, Leeds), 
and his wife, original ; said to be painted by Vanderbank ; 
height 4ft, width 3ft. 34in. In possession of Rev. Wm. 
Bury, of Chapel House, Kilnsey, near Skipton. 

1739. Lady Elizabeth Hastings, born at Ledstone, near Leeds, in 1682 ; 
interred at Ledsham Church, near Leeds, where there is a 
stately monument to her memory, containing a portrait, &c , 
for an engraving of which, see Whitaker's Loidis and Elmete, 
p. 146, &c 



• LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 659 

A.D. 

2. There is an original portrait at Queen's Coll. , Oxford. 

3. Another, at Otterden Place, Kent. 

4. Another, in possession of E. R. Baynes, Esq., Church Street, 
Aylesbury. 

1742. John Philips, of Thorner, near Leeds, aged 117 ; an old and 
interesting portrait, at Temple-lSrewsam, near Leeds, said to 
have been painted by Sir Peter Lely. 

1742. Rev. Richard Bentley, D.D., Master of Trin. Coll., Camb., and 
Archdeacon of Ely, &c, born at Oulton, near Leeds, in 
Jan., 1662. See— 1, Europ. Mag., vol. lxiii., p. Ill ; 
2, another, in Gent. Mag. for Sept., 1830, from (3) a 
painting by Sir J. Thornhill ; 4, another, in De Quincy's 
Works, vol. vi. ; 5, another, set. 48, 1710* (4to., Jas. Thorn- 
hill, p. ; Vertue, sc), in an oval frame, with a wig, bands, 
and canonical habit ; 6, Another, in a 4to. page, C. Picart, 
sc, in Cumberland's Memoirs of his Life and Writings, 1806 ; 

7, another, in Knight's Gallery of Portraits, vol. iii., p. 49 ; 

8, another in the library of Leeds Phil. Hall, with 
autograph letter, &c, from (9) a picture by Hudson, in 
Trin. Coll. Camb., engraved by J. Possel white, in possession 
of compiler, &c. 

10. " Ricardus Rentleius, nat. Jan., 1662 ; mort. Jul. 14, 
1742." J. Thornhill, pinxit, 1710 ; E. F. Burney, del.; 
W. Sharp, sc. ; prefixed to Monk's Life of Bentley. 

11. Another, engraver's proof, 4to., fine and rare, by Sharp, 
price 10s. 6d., on sale by Jno. Camden Hotten, Piccadilly. 

1745. Rev. Joseph OooJcson, M.A., Vicar of Leeds, 1715-1745 ; an orig., 
in possession of Mrs. Cookson, of Headingley. 

1747. Lieut-General Joshua Guest, mezz., V. Diest, p., 1724 ; S. Taylor, 
sc, 1744. See also his bust on his monument in Westminster 
Abbey. 

1749. Sir Walter Calverley,^ Bart., of Calverley, near Leeds. 

* An orig. (half-length, seated, looking to right, right hand resting on book), 
inscribed "set. 48, 1710;" canvas, 501in. by 40iin. In the collection at Trin. Coll., 
Camb. See 2nd S. K. Cat. , No. 180. 

1 1661. Henry Calverley, bom 1604 ; son of Walter Calverley, who " murdered 
two of his young children, stabbed his wife into the bodie, with full purpose to have 
murdered her, and instantly went from his house to have slain his youngest child at 
nurse." This is the "brat at nurse," whom the father repents he had not killed, in 
the "Yorkshire Tragedy," attributed to Shakespeare, died Jan. 1, 1661, orig. , painter 
unknown, bust ; dark dress, wide collar ; dated 1638 ; age 34, Canvas, 29 by 24in. , 
No. 767 in the S. K. Cat. In the collection of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart., 
of Wallington, near Newcastle ; and Seaton, Devon. For information respecting 
portraits of the Calverley family, see Hodgson's Hist, of Northumberland, under 
*' Wallington." Sir Roger de Calverley, one of the family who resided at Calverley, 
was doubtless the prototype of Addison's " Sir Roger de Coverley," the inventor of 
that famous country dance called after him. See Sir Roger de Coverley, in the 
Spectator, with notes byW. H.Wills; Longman and Co., 1850, p. 187, &c. ; also 
Notes and Queries, vol. i., p. 368, &c. The valuable collection of Calverley Charters, 
and other papers, including that, of course, mentioned in the note referred to in 
Wills' Book, are now in the British Museum. 

1777. Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, Bart, (his son), an orig., full length, 
painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., in possession of Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bart. 
See second S. K. Cat., No. 826. 



660 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. • 

A.D. 

1757. David Hartley, Esq., M.A., M.D., an eminent physician, born at 
Armley, near Leeds, in Aug., 1705. Engraver's proof, 
before letters, 4to., Shackleton, in an oval, in possession of 
compiler. 

1761. Sir Henry Ibbetson, Bart, Mayor of Leeds in 1752, &c. ; orig. at 
Denton Park, near Otley. 

1768. Rev. Richard Baron, author, &c, born at Leeds ; prefixed to his 
works. 

1777. Rev. Francis FawJces, M.A., born at Leeds, in 1721, translator of 

Anacreon, Sappho, Theocritus, d-c. 

1778. Chas. Ingram,* 9th and last Viscount Irwin, to whom there is a 

monument, by Kollekins, in Whitkirk Church ; original, 
painted by "Wilson, at Temple-newsam, near Leeds. 

1784. Rev. Thomas Adam, B.A., preacher of the gospel, &c, born at 
Leeds, 1701. 1, orig. painted by M. Jenkin. 
2. Engraved by T. Kitchin ; in possession of the compiler. 

1786. Rev. Samuel Kirshaw, D.D., vicar of Leeds, 1751 — 1786 ; an orig. 
in possession of the late John Smith, Esq. , of Burley House, 
near Leeds ; now with Mrs. Smith, at Harrogate. 

1788. Benj. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., a celebrated painter, born at Leeds 
about 1720-1 ; 1. his own portrait, by himself, in a wig, with 
very little drapery. + 
2. Another orig. painted by himself ; bust to right, showing part 
of right hand, with port-crayon. Canvas, 28 by 20 in. In 
the collection of Earl Spencer, K. G. See 2nd S. K. Cat. 
No. 514. 

1791. John Berfcenhout, Esq.,M.D., a celebrated naturalist and miscell. 

writer, born at Leeds, in 1731 ; see Europ. Mag., for Sept. 
1788. 

1792. John Smeaton, Esq., F.R.S., builder of Eddystone lighthouse, &c, 

born at Austhorpe, near Leeds, in 1724 ; see 1. Europ. Mag. 
for Nov., 1792; Engraved by "VVm. Bromley, in possession 
of the compiler, from (2) a painting by Mather Brown, then 
in possession of Alex. Aubert, Esq. 

*1836. Isabella Ingram, late Marchioness of Hertford (his daughter) ; an orig. full 
length ; in a garden holding feather fan in right hand ; white skirt over yellowish 
dress ; Canvas, 94 by 58 in ; Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In the collection of H. C. 
Meynell Ingram, Esq., at Temple-Newsam, near Leeds. See 2nd S. K. Cat., No. 420. 

Mr. Meynell, of Templenewsam, by Reynolds ; print, on sale by J. C. Hotten. 
Richard, Lord Ingram, 5th Viscount, married Lady Anne Howard, 3rd daughter 
of Chas., 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Of this lady, who was a poetess, there is a portrait in 
Park's Walpole, &c. 

tin the picture of the Raising of Jairus's daughter, painted by "Wilson for the 
Leeds Infirmary, the daughter is a portrait of his wife, when young. 

Gen. Sir Robert Wilson (his son), 1. prefixed to his Life, &c, by the Rev. Herbert 
Randolph, from a miniature. 

2. Anothor, published by Jones and Co., Warwick Square ; in possession of the 
compiler. 

3 Another, in Illustrated London News, for May, 1849. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 661 

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3. Another in Knight's Gallery of Portraits, vol. ii., p. 13; 
Engraved by R. Woodman, from (4) an orig. picture in 
possession of the Eoyal Society, by Mather Brown ; to waist, 
seated ; grev dress ; Eddystone lighthouse in distance to 
left ; Canvas, 30 by 25 in. See S. K. Cat., No. 678. 

5. Another, India proof, royal 4to. ; by Woodman. In posses- 
sion of compiler, from an orig. picture ascribed to Mortimer, 
in possession of the Royal Society. 

6. Another, fine proof before letters ; Woodman, 3s. On sale 
by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

7. Another, oval, in Europ. Mag. ; Brown pinxit ; Corner sculp. 
In possession of the compiler. 

8. Another, prefixed to Smiles's Lives of the Engineers, vol. ii. 
Engraved by W. Holl, after the portrait by Mather Brown, 
and published by John -Murray, in 1861. 

1778. John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexboro\ orig. by Benj. Wilson. See also 
his monument in Methley Church, near Leeds. 

1792. Eight Rev. Christ. Wilson, D.D., Lord Bp. of Bristol, born at 

Leeds, in 1715 ; &c. 

1793. John Lee, Esq, M.P., a native of Leeds; solicitor and attorney- 

general ; a white marble bust, in the Rockingham Mausoleum, 
at Wentworth House, near Sheffield. An orig. portrait (head), 
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in possession of Mr. C. Lee Main- 
waring. In this year's Exhibition of Paintings at the 
British Institution. 

1795. Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Hareiuood, 1790 ; born in 1712, &c, orig. 
at Harewood House, near Leeds. 

1797. Rev. Joseph Milner, M.A., author of Church Hist., &c, born at 
Leeds, in 1744, &c. 

1799. Lieutenants Neville, &c, at Skelbrook Park, Badsworth, near 

Pontefract 

1800. Rev. Newcome Cappe, author, &c, born in Leeds, in 1732, &c. ; 

prefixed to his Memoirs, &c, by his wife in 1802. 

1. Catherine (his wife), p.b.L, 8vo., Is. On sale. 

2. Another, from miniature by Staveley. p.b.L, W. Bond, Is. 6d. 
On sale by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

1804. Rev Joseph Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S., philosopher and author, &c, 
born at Fieldhead, Birstal, near Leeds, in 1733 ; &c. See 
1. Europ. Mag. for Aug., 1791. 
2. Another, in Brougham's Lives of Philosophers, 1845, vol. i. 
p. 427, from (3) a picture by Gilbert Stewart, in possession 
of T. B. Barclay, Esq. , of Liverpool. 

4. Another, in library of Leeds Phil. Hall, with autograph 
letter, &c, Amand, pinx., T. Holloway, sculp. 

5. Another, in an oval, profile, with philosophical apparatus 
below, as a frontispiece, in possession of compiler. 

6. Another, with particulars of his life, as member of various 
foreign, literary societies, by Wm. Darton, of Holborn Hill, 
London, 1822. 

7. Another, with Lavoisier above, on one plate, 4to, Opie and 
David, pinx., Caldwall, sculp., published by Thornton, 180L 
In possession of compiler, &c 

TT 



662 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

8. Another, in Knight's Gallery of Portraits, vol. iv., p. 57, 
from the original picture by Gilbert Stewart, No. 3. 

9. Another, original, painted by John Opie, R. A. ; bust, dark 
coat, and grey wig. In the possession of Manchester New 
Coll., University Hall, London. See 2nd S. K. Cat., No. 
684. Canvas, 30 by 25 in. 

10. Another, 4to. ; Hopwood, sc. ; Is. 11. Another, 4to. ; 
Hazlitt, p. ; Nutter, sc. ; Is. On sale by Jno. Stenson, 
Battersea. 12. Another, India proof, 4to. ; Stewart, p. ; 
Partridge, sc. In possession of compiler. 

1807. Wm. Markham, D.D.,* Lord Archbishop of York; engraved for 

the "Orthodox Churchman's Mag.," vol. ii. 
2. Another, orig., half length, standing to right, beneath a 
column ; episcopal habit. Canvas, 57 by 45in. In the 
collection at Christ Church, Oxford ; painted by Sir Joshua 
Reynolds, P.R.A. See 2nd S. K. Cat., No. 717. 

1808. Rev. W. Wood, F.L.S., minister of Mill HiU Chapel, Leeds, &c, 

prefixed to his Memoirs by the Rev. Chas. Wellbeloved, 
Leeds, 1809. 
1808. Rev. Tlieophilus Lindsay, educated at Leeds Grammar School, &c, 
4to., proof, Vendramini, 2s. On sale by Jno. Stenson. 

1810. Rev. Wm. Sheepshanks, M.A., minister of St. John's Church, 

Leeds, &c. 1, in Appendix to Whitaker's Loidis, p. 31 ; 
engraved by W. Holl, 1816. In possession of compiler. 
2. The orig. painting, by Russell, is in the possession of "Wm. 
Sheepshanks, Esq., at Harrogate. 

1811. Rev. Miles Atkinson, B.A., Founder of St. Paul's Church, Leeds, 

&c. 1, orig. painted by J. Russell, R.A. 

2. Engraved from the above by W. Skelton ; prefixed to his 

"Practical Sermons," pub. by Longman and Co., 1812, 
8vo. In possession of compiler, &c. 

3. Another, in Whitaker's Loidis, p. 69, from orig. by Russell, 
engraved by W. Holl, 1816, 4to. 

1814. Rev. James Scott, D.D., born at Leeds, in 1773, &c. ; orig. in 

possession of Mrs. Cookson, of Headingley. A likeness of 
Dr. Scott is introduced in the picture of the "Death of 
Nelson," by Devis, R.A., in the Painted Hall, Greenwich 
Hospital. 

1815. Rev. Peter Eaddon, M.A:, Vicar of Leeds, &c. 

1815. Rev. John Hey, D.D., Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the 
University of Cambridge, author of Lectures on Divinity, 
&c, was born at Pudsey, near Leeds, in 1734, &c. ; miniature 
in possession of Wm. Hey, Esq., of Gledhow. 

1817. Whittell (Sheepshanks) York, Esq., Mayor of Leeds, &c. 1, an 
orig. painted by Lawrence, in his robes as alderman. 
2. Engraved by Turner, fob, fine mezz. ; price 3s. 6d. ; on sale 
by Jno. Stenson, of Battersea. 



*18li5. Wm, Markham, JUsq. (his eldest son', of Becca Hall, near Aberford; 
engraved by Zobel ; small, 11 by 9 in. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC? 663 

A..D. , 

1819. William Hey, Esq., F.R.S., late senior surgeon to Leeds 

Infirmary, &c. 1. Orig., by Allen, in Board Room of the 
Leeds Infirmary. 

2. Another, engraved by Holl, 4to ; in the Appendix to 
Whitaker's Loidis, 1816, p. 32. In possession of compiler. 

3. Another, engraved by E. Scriven, from the above ; prefixed 
to the 2nd edition of bis Life, &c, by Pearson, 1823, &c. 

4. Another, orig., balf length, with, wig, buff waistcoat and 
buttons ; and also Mrs. Hey. In possession of Mr. Samuel 
Hey, Albion-place, Leeds. 

5. Another, engraved from crayon, by Russell. 

6. An orig. marble bust, by Bullock, with late Mr. Crott, at 
Armley House. Several casts in Leeds Phil. Hall, &c. 

1820. Edward Lascelles* 1st Earl of Harewood, 1812, born in 1740, &c. ; 

orig. at Harewood House, near Leeds. 

1820. Very Rev. Isaac Milner, D.D., F.R.S., Dean of Carlisle, President 

of Queen's College, and Professor of Mathematics in the 
University of Cambridge, was born in Leeds, Jan. 11th, 
1750. 1, an orig. by Opie, in Queen's College, Cambridge. 

2. Another, engraved by Dean, from the above, with autograph, 
&c. ; prefixed to his Life, by his niece, 1842. 

3. Another, in Europ. Mag. for April, 1820, p. 291 ; engraved 
by J. Thomson, from an orig. drawing by J. Jackson, first 
published in the contemporary "British Portraits.'" 

4. Another, engraved by H. Meyer, from an orig. drawing by 
J. Jackson, 4to. In possession of compiler. 

5. Another, 4to., by Adcock, pub. by Seeley, 1838, Is. On sale 
by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

1821. Rev. T. D. Wliitaker, LL.D., F.S.A., author of Loidis and 

Elmete, or a History of Leeds, &c., and editor of a 
splendid edition of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 1816, 
with engravings, &c, born in 1759. 1, an orig. painting, 
by J. Northcote, R.A. ; size, 3ft. by 2ft. 9in. In possession 
of the Rev. R. N. Whitaker, Whalley Yicarage, near 
Blackburn. 

2. Another, engraved by W. Holl, from the above ; set. 56 ; 
prefixed to his "History of Loidis and Elmete,'" 1816. 

3. Another, in Nichols's Liter. Illust., vol. iv., p. 871, 8vo., 
from the above, with fac simile of his autograph. 

4. Another, in Gent. Mag. for Feb., 1822 ; engraved by P. 
Audinet, from the above. In possession of compiler. 

5. Another, orig. by W. D. Fryer, of Knaresborough, by far the best 
likeness, is in the possession of his grandson, T. H. Whitaker, 
Esq. , J. P. , at the Holme, near Burnley. 

6. Another good likeness, in monument, of Caen stone, in 
Whalley Church. There is also a marble bust, by Severe, 
executed for the late Professor Starkie, senior wrangler, who 
married his eldest daughter, Lucy ; now in the possession of 
their daughter, Catharine Blanche. 

*Lascclle8 {Lady Caroline^, with her sisters, Lady Georgiana Agar Ellis and the 
Countess Gower, profiles, on one plate, 4to., proof ; J. Jackson, p. ; R. J. Lane, sc. ; 
3s. On sale by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 



664 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

1825, Walter R. FawJces, Esq.,* M.P., of Farnley Hall, near Leeds, was 

born in 1769, &c. ; in Whitaker's Loidis, p. 194, with 
autograph, &c. ; T. Wageman, del. ; J. Woolnoth, sc. ; fol. 
2. Another, with autograph, 4to., 3-qrs., sitting, private plate, 
5s. On sale by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

1826. Mr. Matthew Murray, a celebrated engineer, born in 1765, &c. ; 

a small orig., painted in London. In possession of J. 0. 
March, Esq., of Beech Grove House, Leeds. 

1826. Sir John Beckett, 1st Bart., was born in 1743, and died at Gled- 
how, near Leeds, set. 84, &c. ; orig. in Beckett's Bank, 
Leeds. 

1828. Col. Thos. Lloyd, Commandant of the Leeds Volunteer Infantry, 
born in 1751, &c. ; orig., full length, presented by the 
Volunteers. In possession of his grandson, Thos. Wm. 
Lloyd, Esq., at Cowesby Hall, near Northallerton. His 
bust, by Joseph Gott, over his monument, in the Leeds 
Parish Church. 

1828. John Atkinson, Esq., F.L.S., surgeon, of Leeds, born in May, 

1787 ; son of Rev. Miles Atkinson ; Curator of Leeds Phil. 
Hall, &c. 1. An orig., painted by Richmond ; 2. Ditto, 
lithog. by Mr. Denny, with six lines of titles, &c, in pos- 
session of compiler ; 3. Miniatures, in possession of H. Miles 
Atkinson, Esq., surgeon, of Leeds. 

1829. Mr. Samuel Hick, "The Village Blacksmith," a popular Methodist 

preacher, born at Aberford, near Leeds, in 1758, &c, pre- 
fixed to his Memoirs, by Everett. 

1830. John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough, born in 1761, and died at 

Methley Park, near Leeds. 

1830. Edw. S. George, Esq. F.L.S., an orig., painted by the late Wm. 

Robinson, of Leeds ; in possession of Mr. Alderman George, 
Belle Vue House, Leeds. 

1831. Roger Holt Leigh, Esq., born in 1779, a governor of Leeds Grammar 

School, &c. ; marble statue, by Westmacott, in Leeds Parish 
Church, sitting, in his civil robes, with an open volume in 
his haud, inscribed "1688." 

1832. Daniel Sykes, Esq., M.A., M.P., F.R.S., son of a Leeds merchant, 

born in 1766, &c. ; 1. Engraved and published by J. Green- 
wood, of Hull ; in possession of compiler. 

2. Another, India proof, autograph, 4to. ; Jackson, p. ; 
Phillips, sc. ; 3s. 

3. Another, folio, niezz., private plate ; Jackson, p. ; Ward, sc. ; 
5s. On sale by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

1833. Chas. T. Thackrah, Esq., a Leeds surgeon, author, &c, born in 

1795, &c. 

* Sir Walter HawJcsworth, of Hawksworth, Bart., (his father), in Whitaker's 
Thoresby's Due. Leod., p. 174; oval, neckcloth clasped, mezz. ; G. Lumley, fecit, 
•tto. In possession of compiler. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 665 

A.D. 

1833. Rev. Edward Parsons, Independent minister of Salem Chapel, 

Leeds, born in 1758, &c. ; 1. An orig. painting, by 
Wildman. 

2. Ditto, engraved by Parker, published in May, 1827, by 
Westley and Davis, London ; in possession of compiler. 

3. Another, in Theol. Mag. ; oval, Isaac Taylor, sc, Colchester, 
published by N. Biggs, Bristol, in Oct., 1801 ; in possession 
of compiler. 

4. Another, oval, with bands ; Blood, sc. ; published by 
"Williams & Son, Stationer's Court,. March 1st, 1815. In 
possession of compiler. 

5. Another, with fac simile of autograph ; Derby, del. ; Thom- 
son, sc. ; 4to. ; 2s. On sale by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 

6. Another, engraved by T. Lupton, in possession of compiler, 
from (7) an orig. painting by J. Northcote, Esq., R.A., in the 
possession of Mr. T. 0. Robinson, of Clapham, Surrey. 

1834. Mr. Wm. Butterworth, engraver, &c, prefixed to his "Three 

Years Adventures of a Minor," with fac simile of autograph ; 
Butterworth, del. and sc, Leeds. In possession of compiler. 

1835. Michael Thos. Sadler, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., author, &c, born in 1780. 

1. An orig., painted by W. Robinson, of Leeds. 

2. Ditto, engraved by T. Lupton, 4to. In possession of 
compiler. 

3. Another, with autograph, prefixed to his "Memoirs," 
engraved by Woodman, and published by Seeley, 1842, 8vo. ; 
in possession of compiler. Statue (by Park, of London), in 
Leeds Parish Church. Another, cast, in Leeds Phil. Hall. 

1837. Rev. W. M. Heald, M.A., Vicar of Birstal, born in 1767, &c. ; a 
good likeness, painted by the late Mr. Hunter, of Wakefield. 
In possession of the Rev. Canon Heald, Birstal Vicarage, 
near Leeds. 

1837. Rev. Richd. Fawcett, M.A., Vicar of Leeds, born in 1760, &c. 
1, orig. in possession of Mrs. Cookson, of Headingley, near 
Leeds. 
2. Orig., long grey wig and bands, with Mr. Walkington, 
broker, Leeds. 

1837. C. H. Schwanf elder, Esq., artist, of East-parade, Leeds', and 
animal painter to His Majesty King George III. ; orig., 
half length, buff waistcoat, with portfolio ; in Borough 
Treasurer's room, Town Hall, Leeds. 

1837. John ETey, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., surgeon, of Leeds, born in 1802, 

&c. ; an orig., by Robinson, of Leeds. In possession of 
Mrs. John Hey, of Borrow-Ash, near Derby. 

1838. Geo. Wm. FredTc. Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds, K.G., &c, born in 

1795, &c. See Illust. Lond. News for Dec. 16th, 1854 ; and 
for July 14th and 21st, 1859, pp. 478, 485, &c. 



666 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

1838. Rev. Samuel Marsden, missionary at New South Wales, &c, bom 

at Farsley, near Leeds. 1. A fine proof on India paper, 
4to. , Fittler, sc. , in possession of compiler. 

2. Another, small 8vo., Terry, sc, Is. OnsalebyJno. Stenson, 
Battersea. 

3. Another, prefixed to his Memoirs, published by the Religious 
Tract Society, from (4) a portrait in crayons, in the Church 
Missionary Society's House, London. 

1839. Wm. Robinson, Esq., artist, born at Leeds, in 1799 ; an orig.,, 

painted by himself. 

1840. Benjamin Gott, Esq., merchant, of Armley House, near Leeds, born 

in 1762, &c. ; a large orig., painted by Sir Thos. Lawrence ; 
a fine statue, life-size, reclining on a mattress, in a posture 
of deep meditation, by Joseph Gott, of R-onie, is in Armley 
Church, near Leeds ; a marble bust, by same sculptor, on a 
pedestal, dated 1828, in Leeds Phil. Hall. 

1840. George Bridges, Esq., M.P., formerly of Leeds, born in 1763 ; 

afterwards sheriff, alderman, and Lord Mayor of London, 
and also one of the members of Parliament for the City, 
&c. See (1) Europ. Mag. for Nov., 1820, p. 385 ; engraved 
by J. Thomson. In possession of compiler ; from (2) an 
crig. painting by Mr. Samuel Drummoncl, A.R.A. 

1841. Mr. Wm. Dawson, "The Yorkshire Farmer," a celebrated Wes- 

leyan local preacher, born at Garforth, near Leeds, in 1773. 
Prefixed to his Correspondence, by Everett. 
1841. Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood, born in 1767, Lord 
Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, &c. l y 
engraved by Page, with fac simile of autograph. In pos- 
session of compiler ; from (2) a painting by Jackson, in 
Fisher's "National Portrait Gallery," 8vo., 1830. 
3-. Another, engraved by Thos. Lupton, and published in 1 
1826 (when Viscount Lascelles), full length, standing, 
without hat, stick in one hand and gloves in the other ; 
from (4) the orig. painting at Harewood House, by Sir Thos. 
Lawrence, P.R.A. 

5. Another, no engraver's name, proof, size 16 in. by 13. 

6. Another, lithog., on horseback, with view of Harewood House 
and Park in the background, by Wm. Kingston, from (7) a 
picture by Eddis ; printed by C. Hullmandel, of London. 

8. Another, India proof, 4to., by Jackson and Page, 2s. On 
sale by Jno. Stenson, Battersea. 
1843. Mr. John Nicholson, " The Airedale Poet, " prefixed to his poem, 
" The Yorkshire Musical Festival," 1828. 

1843. Geo. William Wood, Esq., M.P., a native of Leeds, born in 

1781, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, 
and member for South Lancashire, &c. ; an orig. , painted by 
Linnell. In possession of Wm. Rayner Wood, Esq., of 
Singleton, Manchester. 

1844. Ven. John Sheepshanks, M.A., incumbent of Holy Trinity Church, 

Leeds, and Archdeacon of Cormvali ; orig. by W. Owen, 
R.A. (exhibited in the Northern Society's Exhibition at the 
Music Hall, Leeds, 1822). In the possession of the Rev. T. 
Sheepshanks, of Arthington. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 667 

A.D. 

1844. Wm. Hey, Esq., J. P., surgeon, of Leeds, born in 1771, &c. ; an 
orig. by Robinson, of Leeds, in possession of the Rev. 
Canon Hey, of York ; orig. bust by Behnes, in possession 
of "Wm. Hey, Esq., at Gledhow, near Leeds. 

1844. Rt. Hon. Wm. Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., &c, son of the 
Rev. Sir Wm. Lowther, Bart., rector of Swillington, near 
Leeds, born in 1757, &c. See (1) "Portraits of Eminent 
Conservatives, " 2nd series ; Virtue, London ; from (2) a 
painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, R.A. See also 1705. 

1844. Sir John Lowther, Bart., M.P., died at Swillington Hall, near 
Leeds, aged 85. 

1844. James Musgrave, Esq., alderman and magistrate for the borough, of 

Leeds, born in 1776, &c. His portrait is one of those 
included in the well-known "VVesleyan "Centenary Picture." 

1845. John Marshall, Esq., M.P., a celebrated flax spinner, of Holbeck, 

Leeds, born in 1765, &c. ; marble bust, by Macdonald, of 
Rome, dated 1828, in Leeds Phil. Hall ; for an engraving of 
wliich see the Illust. Lond. News for June, 1845. 

1845. Anthony Titley, Esq., of Wortley Lodge, near Leeds ; an orig., in 
possession of A. Titley, Esq. 

1845. Rev. Joseph Procter, D.D., Master of St. Catharine's Hall, Camb. ; 
an orig. in the Coll. Combination-room; engraved by Mr. 
Rowe, of Cambridge. 

1847. Hon. Sir Edw. M. Vavasour, Bart., of Hazlewood ; no engraver's 
name ; size 13^ in. by 10i. 

1847. Christopher Beckett, Esq., J. P., banker, of Meanwood Park, near 
Leeds, born in 1777, &c. See lithog. of Ms tomb in Leeds 
' : Parish Church. 

1847. Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, Bart., B. C.L., E.R.S., &c* 

born at Leeds, in 1775, &c, became a Privy Councillor, 
Judge Advocate-General, and M.P. for Leeds, &c. ; 
1. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A., fob, fine mezz., in pos- 
session of compiler ; from (2) a painting by Scbwanfelder, 
of Leeds. 
3. Another, head, Eredk. Tatham, del., Feb., 1849 ; lately in 
possession of Jno. Smith, Esq. , of Burley. 

1847. Rev. Thos. Dykes, LL.B^, incumbent of Barwick-in-Elmet, near 
Leeds, and founder of St. John's Church, Hull, &c. 1, 
lithog. , with fac simile of autograph, by R. J. Lane, half 
length, preaching, &c. 
2. Another, smaller, without name, &c. In possession of Mr. 
Samuel Hey, of Albion-place, Leeds, who has also one of the 
late Rev. Saml. Hey, Vicar of Ockbrook, in Derbyshire, a 
crayon, by Josiah Gilbert. 

* Beckett, Lady Anne, daughter of Lord Lonsdale, and wife of Sir John ; from a 
painting by Mee, engraved by Wright, india proof, royal 4to., Is. 6d. ; Another, 
engraver's proof, royal 4to., 2s. 6d. ; on sale by J. C. Hotten, of Piccadilly. Another, 
4to., Mee, p. ; Thompson, sc. ; Is. 6d. ; Another, India paper, 2s. ; Another, p.b.l., 
2s. 6d. On sale by ,Tno. Stenson, of Battersea. 



668 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

1847. Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq., M.P., son and heir of Richard 
Wilson, Esq., of Leeds, born in 1782, &c. 

1847. Bev. John Ely, minister of East-parade Chapel, Leeds ; engraved 

by B. Holl, from a daguerreotype, with fac simile, of auto- 
graph, &c, pub. by J. Y. Knight, Leeds, in 1848. 

1848. Geo. Lane Fox, Esq., M.P., of Bramham Park, near Leeds ; a 

lithog., by Hullmandell, size 20 in. by 14. Another, on 
horseback, with foxhounds, &c. Ditto, engraved. 

1848. Eev. B. W. Hamilton, LL.D., D.D., minister of Belgrave Chapel, 
Leeds; 1, prefixed to his "Memoirs," by Dr. Stowell, 
1850 ; engraved by J. B. Hunt, with/ac simile of autograph ; 
from (2) a painting by Wm. Scott. 
3. Another, engraved by C. Tinner, A.R.A., fol., fine mezz. 
In possession of compiler ; from (4) a painting by C. H. 
Schwanfelder, Esq., of Leeds. 

5. Another, standing, three-quarters, by C. Banquiet, of 
Brighton ; lithog. by Day and Haigh, 1845, in Leeds Phil. 
Hall. 

6. Another, standing, by G. Hogarth, of the Haymarket. 

7. Ditto, photographed for album. 

1848. Edward Baines, Esq. M.P., senior proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, 

a magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and one of 
the members tor Leeds, &c. 1. Prefixed to his Life by his 
son, 1851 ; engraved by Greatbach. 

2. Another, from a painting by Hargreaves, whose miniature is 
in the possession of Mrs. Talbot Baines, Dalton Square, 
Lancaster. 

3. Another, with autograph, engraved by J. Cockram, painted 
by T. Hargreaves, and published by Fisher, Son, and Co., 
London, 1834. In possession of compiler. 

4. Another, from a daguerreotype taken at the Leeds Photo- 
graphic Gallery, 27, Park Row, in 1842 ; drawn by G-. 
Childs, and printed by M. and IS". Hanhart, &c. In possession 
of compiler. 

5. Another, full-length, painted by Richard Waller, of Leeds, 
and presented to the Leeds Mechanics' Institution. 

6. Another, from painting by Hargreaves ; engraved by 
Thompson, 4to, proof, Is. 6d., on sale, by J. C. Hotten. 
Statue, by Behnes, in Leeds Town Hall ; the size is colossal, 
being 8 feet in height ; and it is made of a faultless block of 
Carrara marble ; for an engraving of which, see the Illust. 
Lond. News. In possession of compiler. 

1849. Jno. Hepworth Hill, Esq., barrister -at-law, &c, died in Park 

Square, Leeds, aged 46. 1. An orig. head, in oils, but only 
black and white ; painted by Scott. In possession of Captain 
Hill, of Hawley Hill House, near Blackwater, Hants. 
2. Another, head and shoulders, life size, in oils, also painted 
by Scott, for the late Rev. Edward Cookson, now in pos- 
session of Jno. Wm. Hill, Esq., of Osborne Terrace, Leeds. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 669 

A.D. 

1849. R. W. Disney Thorp, Esq., M.D., founder of the Leeds House of 
Recovery, &c. 1. A large orig. by the late W. Robinson, of 
Leeds. In possession of the Ven. Archdeacon Thorp, 
Kemerton Rectory, near Tewkesbury. 
2. Another, small, 14 by 7 in. ; also by a former Leeds artist. 
In possession of Dr. Disney Thorp, of Cheltenham. 

1853. Norrison Scatcherd, Esq. F.S.A., author of "History of Morley,"&c. ; 

small original by Hunter, 10 by 8 in. In possession of 
Samuel Scatcherd, Esq., of Morley House, near Leeds. 

1854. James Montgomery, Esq., poet, born in 1771, and educated at 

Fulneck, near Leeds. 1. In the Eur op. Mag. for January, 
1825, p. 5. 

2. Another, in New Monthly Mag., vol. x., p. 513 ; C. 
Westoby, del., Henry Meyer, sculp ; published, by Henry 
Coulburn, Jan. 1st, 1819. 

3. Another, with autograph ; engraved by F. Croll. In 
possession of compiler. 

4. Another, with spectacles, and autograph. In possession of 
compiler 

5. 6. Others, iulllust. Lond. Neivs, for May 6th, and June 10th, 
1854 ; in possession of compiler, from (7) a painting by R. 
Smith. 

8. Another, full-length ; painted by Barber, of Derby. In 
room of Lit. and Phil. Soc. , at the Music Hall, Sheffield. 

9. Another with autograph, in a border, by Pickering and Roffe, 
prefixed to his Poems ; collected by himself. Longman and 
Co., 1850. 

10. Another, aged 35 ; engraved by H. Adlard, after a painting 
by Chantrey, prefixed to the 1st vol. of his Memoirs, by 
Holland and Everett. Longman and Co.. 1854. 

11. Another, aged 55, with autograph ; engraved by H. Adlard, 
from a painting by John Jackson, R. A., prefixed to vol. iv. 
of his Memoirs. Longman, 1854. 

12. Another, fob, mezz. ; engraved by C. Turner, from a painting 
by J. R. Smith, price 2s. 6d., on sale by John Stenson, of 
Battersea. 

1854. Rev. Joseph Holmes, D.D., Head Master of Leeds Grammar School, 

&c, drawn in crayons, a few years before his death, by 
Tatham, in possession of his eldest son, the Rev. J. Holmes, 
Swineshead Vicarage, near Spalding. 

1855. Sir Wm. M. S. Milner, Bart., of JSTun-Appleton, near Tadcaster ; 

a lithog. by Day and Son. Size 20 in. by 14. 

1855. Joshua Bower, Esq., alderman, &c, of Hunslet, Leeds, born in 
1773, &c. 

1855. Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. Molesworth, Bart., M.P. for Leeds, &c. See 
Illust. Lond. News, for Oct. 27th, 1855, in possession of 
compiler, by E. Landells, from a photograph by Bryan E. 
Dupper, Esq., seated, reading a book. 

1855. Mr. Joseph Rhodes, artist, born in Leeds ; an orig., painted by 
himself. 



670 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

A.D. 

1855. Rev. Packard Sheepshanks, M.A., F.R.S., born in 1794, &c, Fellow 

of Trin. Coll., Camb., &c. 1. A small orig., painted, when 
he was young, by Jackson, in possession of his sister, Miss 
Sheepshanks, 14, London Road, Reading. 

2. Another, by Yellowlees, painted when he was of middle age. 

3. Another, engraved in line, by Ward, after a photograph by 
Claudet ; a bust, by Foley, in the Chapel of Trin. Coll., 
Camb. 

1856. Wm. Wms. Brown, Esq., banker, and alderman, of Leeds, born 

in 1788, &e. 

1857. Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Ha.rewood, born in 1797, Lord-Lieut. 

of the West Riding, &c. 

1. An equestrian portrait, at Harewood House, near Leeds, 
painted by Mr. (now Sir) Francis Grant, R.A. 

2. Ditto, engraved by Ward. 

1857. Robert Ball, Esq., M.A., M.P., an orig., by Ellerby, in possession 

of Mrs. Hall, Dean's Yard, Westminster. Another, of later 
date, by Ralph, in possession of Geo. Nelson, Esq., Grafton 
House, Leeds ; with several photographs, by Harrison, &c. 
See also Illust. Lond. News, for June, 27th, 1857, in 
possession of compiler. (Engraved from a painting in 
possession of the family). Statue of white marble, of 
colossal size, representing the learned member in his robes of 
office as recorder, as he appeared when presenting an address 
from the Corporation to the Queen, in the Victoria Hall, of 
Leeds Town Hall. 

1858. David, Cooper, Esq., a merchant, of Leeds, &c, born in 1793; an 

orig., seated, painted by Briggs, in possession of John 
Cooper, Esq. , of Gledhow. 

1859. Henry Hall, Esq., J. P., of Bank Lodge, Leeds, born in 1773, &c. ; 

1. A lithog., was executed from a photograph by Baume, of 
Leeds. 

2. An orig., by Ellerby, in possession of Mrs. Robert Hall, 
Dean's Yard, Westminster. 

3. A fine marble statue, life-size, in a sitting posture, by 
Behnes, in Leeds Gen. Infirmary. 

1859. Sir Geo. Goodman, Knt., M.P. for Leeds, born in 1792, &c. 1. An 
orig., full-length, with chain, in Council Chamber at the 
Leeds Town Hall, painted by T. Simpson, presented by the 
burgesses to the Council, in 1836. 
2. Another, lithog. by Hannart, large size, oval, sitting, with 
autograph, &c. 

1859. Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne, 1th and late Duke of Leeds, 
born in 1798, &c. See Illust. Lond. Neios for Dec. 16th, 
1854, in possession of compiler, from a family painting ; 
and also for May 21st, 1859, in his uniform as Colonel of the 
North York Militia (Rifles), in possession of compiler, from 
a photograph by Jno. Watkins, of Parliament Street, 
London. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 671 

A.D. 

1859. Rt. Hon. T. B., ( Lord) Macaulay, M.P. for Leeds, &c. See IllusL 

Lond. News, for May and June, 1846, in possession of com- 
piler, and for Jan. 7th, 1860 ; and also the Illust. News of 
the World, and Mackenzie's "Imperial Diet, of Universal 
Biography," &c. 6. Another, orig., by Francis Grant, R.A, 

1860. Albert Denison, 1st Lord Londesborough, F.R.S., &c. See Illust. 

Lond. News, for Feb. 4th, 1860, engraved by James Faed, 
in possession of compiler, from a painting by Francis Grant, 
E.A. Another, orig., painted by Miss Metcalfe, presented 
by the present lord to the Mechanics' Institute, Selby. 

1860. Rt. Hon. M. T. Raines, M.P. for Leeds, &c. See Illust. Lond. 
News, for Oct. 13th, 1855, and for Feb. 4th, 1860, in 
possession of compiler ; also the Illust. News of the World, 
for Nov. 24th, 1860, engraved by D. J. Pound, in possession 
of compiler, from a photograph by Mayall. A lithog. was 
also published in June, 1854, by Mr. Wm. Slade, of Leeds, 
from a daguerreotype by Mr. Kilburn. 

Another, orig., 3-qrs. length, in possession of Mrs. Talbot 
Baines, Dalton Square, Lancaster. 

1860. Thos. Wm. Tottie, Esq., an eminent solicitor at Leeds, born in 
1773, &c. ; published by Mr. Hogarth, of the Hayrnarket, 
from a likeness by Mr. T. C. Moore, engraved by Mr. 0. W. 
Sharpe ; half-length, 12in. by 9, in possession of his son, 
J. W. Tottie, Esq. , Coniston Hall, Bell Busk, near'Leeds ; also, 
at the Leeds Savings Bank, and in the Council Koom at the 
Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall, &c. 

1860. Rev. Thos. Scales, born at Leeds in 1786, minister of Queen Street 

Chapel, Leeds. 

1861. Sir Peter Fairbairn, Knt., born in 1799, mayor of Leeds, &c. 

1. Lithog., oval, three-quarters, standing, in robes, with auto- 
graph, &c, by C. Bourgier, 1858, in Town Clerk's Office at 
Leeds Town Hall. A similar one of Lady Fairbairn. 

2. See Illust. Lond. News, and (3) Illust. Times, Sept. 11, 1858. 

4. The Illust. News of the World, for Sept. 18th, 1858, in 
possession of compiler, from a photograph by Mr. Braith- 
waite, of Leeds. 

5. A full-length portrait, in his robes, painted by Mr. (now Sir) 
Francis Grant, E.A., in the Council Chamber at the Leeds 
Town Hall. A statue is also about to be erected in Leeds. 

1861. James Holdforth, Esq., born in 1778, magistrate and mayor of 
Leeds, &c. , in possession of Walter Holdforth, Esq. 

1861. Richard Oastler, Esq., the "Factory King," born at Leeds, in 
1789, &c. 1. Engraved by Wm. Barnard, from (2) a painting 
by J. H. Illidge ; proofs, 21s. ; prints, 15s., published by 
Inchbold, Briggate, Leeds, 1832. A bronze statue by Mr. 
J. Bernie Philip, standing, is about to be erected in 
Bradford. 

1861. Mr. James Nichols, the learned printer, formerly of Leeds, born in 
1785, &c. A photog. portrait is prefixed to short Memoir 
of his life, by W. Nichols, of London. 



672 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEXSIS. 

A.D. 

1861. James Richardson, Esq., Clerk of the Peace of the Borough of Leeds ; 
an orig. painting by Coupland, 30in. by 24 ; in possession of 
his son, J W. Hamilton Richardson, Esq. ; with several 
photographs. 

1863. William Beckett, Esq., M.P. for Leeds, &c, born in 1784, &c. 

1. Orig., half-length, by Grant, at Beckett's Bank. 

2. Another, engraved by Thos. Lupton, Esq., standing, in his 
uniform, size 16 by 13 in. ; from (3) a painting by the 
late Henry Smith, Esq. , of Leeds. 

4. Another, full-length, painted by Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A., 
in the Mayor's Room at the Leeds Town Hall. 

5. Ditto, engraved by — 

1863. William Gott, Esq., woollen merchant, of Wyther, Armley, near 
Leeds, born in 1797, &c. ; marble bust, dated 1863, by 
Adams (of Rome), in the Leeds Phil. Hall. 
Another, by Gott (of Rome), at Armley House, near Leeds. 

1863. John Sheepshanks, Esq., born in 1787, owner of the Sheepshanks' 

gallery of paintings, which he gave to the nation, for the 
museum at South Kensington. 

1. An orig., painted by Geddes, in possession of the Rev. T. 
Sheepshanks, of Arthington. 

2. Another, painted by Mulready, in South Kensington 
Museum ; and a bust by Foley. 

1864. Chas. Gascoignc Maclea, Esq., born in 1793, magistrate and m^or 

of Leeds, &c. 1. An orig., when young, painted by Mr. 
Wm. Crabb, in possession of J. 0. March, Esq., of Beech 
Grove House, Leeds. 
2. Another, painted a short time before his death, by the cele- 
brated Simpson who painted Wm. IV., in possession of 
Geo. March, Esq., of Blenheim Terrace. 

1864. John Hope Shav), Esq., born in 1792, Mayor of Leeds, &c. An 
orig. , seated, in the Council Chamber at the Leeds Town Hall ; 
also photographed for album. 

1864. John Fovjler, Esq., Founder of the Steam-Plough Works, Leeds, 

&c. ; photographed for album. 

1865, May 10. John Blackburn, Esq., Coroner for the borough of Leeds, 

photog. by Harrison of Leeds. 

1865, June 6. J. P. Garlick, Esq., surgeon, of Leeds ; a large orig. 
(size, 3-qrs.), painted by Briggs. Another, smaller portrait, 
drawn by Mr. Gilbert, of London, in col. chalk ; in posses- 
sion of Wm. Garlick, Esq., Leeds. 

1865, June 9. Hamer Stansfeld, Esq., J. P., merchant, of Leeds; orig., 
life size, by the late Mr. Bonner, of Edinburgh, in the 
drawing-room, at Ben Rhydding, Ilkley. 

1865, June 15. Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff, minister of Call Lane Chapel, Leeds, 
and founder of the " Band of Hope ; " photog. for album, and 
prefixed to his Memoirs, &c. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS, ETC. 673 

A.D. 

1865, Oct. 12. Rev. F. T. Howell, M.A., the first Vicar of St. Stephen's, 
Burmantofts, Leeds ; photog. for album. 

1865, Oct. 15. Rev. Joshua Hart, B.A., Yicar of Otley, near Leeds; 
photog. for album. 

1865, Nov. 22. Rev. A. J. Brameld, first Vicar of New Wortley, Leeds ; 

photog. for album. 

1866, April 23. Judge Hargreave, LL.D., F.R.S., born at Wortley, near 

Leeds ; photog. for album, &c. 

1866, June 2. Rev. C. H. Collier, M.A., Incumbent of St. Luke's 
Church, Leeds ; photog. for album. 

1866, Dec. 13. Rev. Edw. Monro, M.A., author, and Vicar of St. John's, 

Leeds ; photog. for album. 

1867, April 1. John Gott, Esq., J. P., Leeds merchant; marble bust, by 

Gott, of Home, at Armley House, near Leeds. 



N.B. — We should like to see as many of these as possible, with any others 
that may have been omitted, brought together next year for 
Exhibition, as a local Portrait Gallery, in connection with 
the Leeds Fine Art Exhibition : and not this only, but also 
the formation of a permanent Portrait Gallery of the 
Worthies of Leeds and neighbourhood. * 

We should also be glad to see one of the best Portraits of each 
Worthy photographed by some enterprising Photographer, 
and sold at a cheap rate, say the better ones at Is. each, and 
the inferior ones as low as 6d. ; not only for illustrating the 
Biographia Leodiensis, but also for a separate album, and for 
large sheets for framing, &c. No doubt some hundreds 
might be sold. 

P.S. — It is also very desirable that good photographs of as many of the 
Mayors as can possibly be obtained, for the last thirty or 
forty years (or at least since 1835), should be placed in the 
Mayor's Rooms, at the Leeds Town Hall, — as at Manchester. 
See the Athenaeum for April, 1866. 

* For additional information respecting Portraits, see Granger's Biog. Hist, of 
Engd., with Noble's Continuation ; Bromley's Engraved British Portraits; Jerdan's 
National Portrait Gallery; Houbraken's Heads, &c, by Dr. Birch; Evans' Cat. of 
30,000 Engraved Portraits, 2 vols. ; Ames's Cat. of about 2000 English Heads; Lists 
of Engraved Portraits, by Hotten, Stenson, &c. Leeds Mercury for Jan. 5th, and 
13th, 1866 ; Yorkshire Post, &c. for Mar. 5th, 1867 ; Notes and Queries, portraits of 
distinguished Englishmen, leading article by Lord Braybrooke, iii. 233 ; Portraits 
privately engraved, iv. 17 ; Evans' Cat. of Engraved Portraits, v. 176. 261 ; Monu- 
mental Portraits, v. 349, 451 ; Cat. of Nat. Ports., vii. 258; Portrait Painters of last 
Century, ix. 563, &c. A Biog. List of Portrait Painters, alphabetically arranged, is 
given in Hobbes's Picture Collector's Manual, being a Diet, of Painters, &c, vol. ii., 
pp. 467—515, edit. 1849 ; See also Gent. Mag. ; South Kensington Cats, of Nat. 
Portraits, &c. ; Brit. Gall, of Hist. Portraits, 1420—1750 ; 4 vols., 8vo., 42s., Daniel, 
1849. Port. Gall, of Dist. Poets, Philosophers, Statesmen, &c, 3 vols., 8vo., 63s., 
Orr, 1852 Port. Gall, of Eminent Personages, 3 vols., folio, 21s. each, "Illust. 
News of the World", 1858—60. Ports, of Eminent Living Divines, edit, by S. 
Isaacson, 4to., 12s., proofs, 21s., Dawe, 1839. Ports, of Eminent Men, 18mo., Is. 6d., 
Nelson, 1856, &c. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 



The following Alphabetical List (in -addition to those given in the Notes *), 
containing upwards of 330 names of persons who have lived to the 
great age of ninety years and upwards, in Leeds and neighbourhood, 
has been compiled from various sources ; but independent of Grainger's 
Yorkshire Longevity, &c, or of Easton's List, a substantial octavo 
volume of 300 pages, containing "the name, age, place of residence, 
and year of the decease of 1712 persons who attained a century or 
upwards." See also Notes and Queries for Jan. 6th, 1855, &c. 

Mary Airton, of Horsforth, near Leeds, died in 1809, aged 105 years. 

Died on Friday, March 10th, 1854, aged 92, Mrs. Aked, of Shipley. 

Mrs. Arton, of Potternewton, near Leeds, died in 1805, at the advanced 
age of 105 years. 

Died in June, 1831, aged 90, Mrs. Arton, wife of the late Mr. Arton, of 
Potternewton, near Leeds. 

Charles Atkinson, of Hunslet, near Leeds, was interred in Wortley 
Church-yard, Feb. 17th, 1830, aged 94 years. 

* The following examples of persons who have lived in Leeds and Neighbourhood, 
to the advanced age of ninety and a hundred years, may prove interesting to some 
of our readers, and show that Leeds, in former times at least, has been also celebrated 
for the longevity of its inhabitants. 

Sir Geo. Tempest, of Tong, near Leeds, told Thoresby that there was lately buried 
at that chapel, a woman that was seventy or more, and at the same time, and in the 
same grave, her aged mother, who was above a hundred. 

Holbeck could formerly boast of three aged persons, contemporaries, viz. : Mr. 
Tobias lies, the benefactor, Mr. Adam Rargrave, and Thos. Atkinson, whose ages 
amounted to two hundred threescore and three. 

Besides the remarkable longevity of men and women separately considered, we 
find it sometimes attending them jointly and in consort ; thus Mr. Geo. Issott, and 
Katherine his wife, parents to Mrs. Ambier, of Leeds, were forty years man and wife, 
and never buried one of their numerous family. Richard and Elizabeth, father and 
mother of Mr. Martin Huntington, of Holbeck, were fifty-two years married, and 
both died in the eighty-second year of their age. But the father and mother of Christr. 
Dale, of Leeds, had been fifty-seven years married, and were then still alive. 

Robert Dyneley, Esq., and Margaret, his wife (who was eldest daughter of Sir 
John Stanhope, and one of the two-and-twenty children that he and his lady had, 
before either of them was forty years of age!, lived above sixty years in that happy 
state. The Whitfields, of Headingley, lived in matrimony eighty years. 

Nor hath this extraordinary longevity attended only married couples, but some- 
times many in the same family. The ages of the Rev. Christr. Nesse, formerly 
lecturer at the Leeds Parish Church, &c, Mr. Robert Nesse, Sergeant at Mace to the 
Mayors of Leeds, who died about the same time, with their tioo sisters, amounted to 
three hundred years and upu-ards. 

In 1694, two men— a father and son— were subpoenaed in a cause tried at York ; 
the former was in his one hundred and fortieth year, and the latter upwards of one 
hundred years of age. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 675 

Died on Tuesday, March 15th, 1825, aged 94, Mr. James Atkinson, 
formerly a cloth-manufacturer of Hunslet, and father of Mr. John 
Atkinson, of the Black Lion Inn, in this town. 

Mrs. Hannah Baines, mother of the late Mr. John Baines, of Thornhill 
Academy, died in April, 1851, aged 97. She was followed to the grave 
by three sons and three daughters, whose united ages were 380 years ; by 
fifty grandsons and grand-daughters, sixty-six great-grandchildren, and 
nine great-great-grandchildren. 

Died on Monday, May 7th, 1849, in his 90th year, Mr. John Barker, 
slubber, of Kodley, near Leeds. 

Grace Barnard, of Leeds, died in 1804, aged 101 years. 

Mr. Thos. Barnard, (or Bernard), of Leeds, according to Thoresby, was 
50 years old when he married, had eighteen children, and was so brisk that 
he rode a-hunting when he was about a hundred years of age ; he could 
then read without spectacles, though he had used them at ninety. He 
lived to the patriarchal age of 103, and his aged widow survived him. 

Died on Monday, Sept. 26th, 1842, aged 97, Jane, wife of Mr. Thomas 
Barrand, joiner, of Bramhope, near Leeds. 

Hannah, widow of Mr. John Barret, of "Wrose Hill, Idle, near Leeds, 
died on Sunday, Jan. 20th, 1850, in her 96th year. 

Died on Thursday, Aug. 14th, 1806, at Throstle-lsTest, Garforth, near 
Leeds, Mrs. Battey, grandmother of Mr. Nelson, whitesmith, in this town, 
at the advanced age of 100 years. 

Mr. John Bean, father to Mrs. Ward, of Park Street, Leeds, attained to 
107 years, and living at Middlethorp, near York, saw (notwithstanding the 
vacancy in the late times) thirteen archbishops of this province. 

Died on Friday, Dec. 25th, 1846, aged 91, at the residence of her son- 
in-law, Mr. T. C. Stubbins, Accountant, Oxford Row, in this town, highly 
respected, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. Edward Bearpark, formerly 
of York. 

There were residing at Leeds, in 1701, the mother and aunt of Alderman Rooke, 
his father and mother-in-law (Mr. Pulleyne, sen., and his wife), whose joint ages 
amounted to three hundred and sixty years, averaging ninety each ; and about a 
year before, he buried a near relation, aged eighty-four years. 

In 1775, there were twenty people living in Meadow Laae, whose united ages 
amounted to one thousand five hundred years, i.e. averaging seventy-five years each ; 
the population of Leeds at that time being 17,117. 

In June, 1829, there were in the Leeds Poor-house twenty-five paupers, whose 
united ages amounted to one thousand nine hundred and eighteen years ; averaging 
nearly seventy-seven each. 

There were living in March, 1834, in the hamlet of Adel, near Leeds, seven 
farmers, whose united ages amounted to five hundred and seventy-six years ; i.e., 
averaging over eighty-two years each. 

Mary, wife of James Barratt of Rawden, near Leeds, died on Sunday, March 
21st, 1802, aged seventy-seven years ; the preceding day her brother, Wm. Hardaker, 
was interred at the same place, aged eighty-three ; there were then living of the same 
family, John Hardaker, aged ninety-two ; Hannah Atkinson, widow, aged eighty-seven ; 
Susanna Denison, widow, aged eighty-one ; Richard Hardaker, aged seventy-fow ; and 
Roger Hardaker, aged seventy-one : the united ages of these seven brothers and 
sisters, amounted to five hundred and sixty-five years. 

There was living in Oct , 1804 (according to the Leeds Mercury), at Bramhope, 
near Leeds, a farmer of the name of Stephen Sharp, who had arrived at the 
extraordinary age of one hundred and six years. 



676 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Died at Bradford, December 29th., 1824, aged 92, Mary Beaumont, late 
of Thornhill, and mother of G-. Beaumont, dissenting minister at Norwich, 
by whom she was supported during the last forty-one years of her life. 
She was a widow nearly forty-seven years — forty-six years a grandmother, 
twenty-six years a great-grandmother, and belonged to the Wesleyan 
Connexion about seventy years. 

Died on Friday, Oct. 26th, 1804, in the 93rd year of her age, Mrs. Beezon, 
mother to Mr. James Beezon, cheesemonger, of this town, and one of the 
people called Quakers. 

Mrs. Eden Bennett, of Stanningley, near Leeds, and mother of Mr 
Saml. Bennett, shopkeeper, of this town, died on Thursday, Dec. 26th, 
1839, aged 91 years. 

Mr. John Bennitt, of Brand ey, near Leeds, formerly a manufacturer of 
cloth, with which he attended Leeds, when the market for that article was 
held in Briggate, died on Monday, May 21st, 1832, at the advanced age of 
91. The deceased was born in the fourteenth j^ear of the reign of George II., 
and had consequently lived in the reign of four kings. He was great- 
grandfather to no less than/or^?/ children. 

Died on Thursday, April 24th, 1828, in his 90th year, Mr. James 
Benson, of Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds. 

Mr. Laivrence Benson, sen., went from Leeds after dinner to Kippax, 
got half an acre of wheat reaped, brought a peck of it home, sent it to the 
mill, got it grinded, and a cake made of it, which the cant old man ate the 
same evening : he was then fourscore and eleven or twelve years of age, as 
his son, the lecturer at the Leeds Parish Church, informed Thoresby. 

Jane Bickerdike, widow, of Harewood, near Leeds, was buried Dec. 14th, 
1759, aged 90 years. 

William Birkhead, of Cleckheaton, near Leeds, died March 3rd, 1797, 
aged 100 years. 

Mr. Joseph Blackburn, formerly a clothier, of Black -Bank, Leeds, died 
on Thursday, Feb. 5th, 1829, in his 94th year. 

Died on Friday, April 6th, 1821, in Park Place, Leeds, Mary, the widow 
of the late Wm. Blackbume, Esq., in the 90th year of her age. She was an 
exemplary Christian, and was much esteemed by a large circle of friends for 
her amiable and benevolent disposition. 

Died on Wednesday, May 18, 1842, aged 90, Ellen, widow of Mr. 
John Bottom, clothier, of Bramley, near Leeds. 

John Booker, of Keswick, near Leeds, was buried April 8th, 1680, aged 
100 years. 

Mr. Wm. Booth, of Cross-gates, Seacroft, near Leeds, died on Monday, 
Dec. 9th, 1839, aged 92 years. 

Mrs. Rachel Boynton, relict of the late Mr. James Boynton, painter, of 
Leeds, died suddenly on Monday, April 26th, 1790, aged upwards of 
90 years. She had lived in the family of the late Sir Alexander Banner- 
man, Bart., from the age of 14 to the time of her marriage (about twenty - 
five years ago), and had lived to see seven generations of them. She was a 
faithful servant, an affectionate wife, and a good Christian. 

William Bradley, farmer, of "Weardley, Harewood, near Leeds, was 
buried Aug. 23rd, 1777, aged 95 years. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 677 

Died on Sunday, June 30th, 1851, aged 99, Mrs. Bradley, of Bland 
Hill, Norwood, near Otley. 

On the 15th of Jan., 1826, at the Parish Church, Calverley, near Leeds, 
were buried — James Brayshaw, clothmakeiy of Idle, near Leeds, aged 87, 
and Martha, his wife, who had been married and lived together sixty-six 
years, and had a family of nine children, fifty-nine grandchildren, fifty-five 
great-grandchildren, and three great -great -grandchildren ; — in all one 
hundred and Uventy-six. 

Mr. Chas. Brook, of Wike, formerly of Cleckheaton, near Leeds, died on 
Tuesday, March 31st, 1840, aged 93 years. 

Philijipa, relict of B. BroolcsbanTc, Esq., died on Thursday, May 3rd, 
1849, at Healaugh Hall, near Tadcaster, in her 90th year. 

Died on Thursday, October 23rd, 1828, aged 91 years, Elizabeth 
Broughton, of Farnley, near Leeds. 

Died on Wednesday, June 18, 1851, aged 99, Mrs. Nancy Broion, of 
Yeadon. The deceased had been perfectly blind for a number of years, 
but regained her sight about seven years ago, and retained it to the last. 
She was followed to the tomb by 93 children, grand-children, &c. 

Rachel Broion, a poor woman of Temple-newsam, near Leeds, was so 
miserably burnt, by her clothes having caught fire, as to occasion her 
death immediately, on Monday, May 14th, 1810, at the advanced age of 
104 years. 

The Rev. Mr. Buckle, was minister of Horsforth, in this neighbourhood, 
according to Thoresby, seven years in 



Mrs. Bulmer, of Buslingthorpe, Leeds, died in Dee., 1802, in the 100th 
year of her age. 

Elizabeth Burley, died on the 26th of November, 1815, at Bramham, 
near Leeds, in the 96th year of her age. To enumerate all her eccentricities 
would be to give a history of her life. She had been a widow nearly thirty 
years, and during that period had lived alone, not permitting any one to 
sleep in the house with her, even when she was sick. Her pecuniary means 
were extremely small, arising chiefly from the profits of her spinning-wheel, 
and selling a few articles such as thread, tape, candles, &c. , yet she proved 
that "who lives to nature never can be poor." A boiled turnip and herb 
tea were amongst her luxuries. So far was she from considering herself 
an object of charity, that when she has been offered a portion of anything 
given to relieve the wants of the distressed, her general reply was to this 
effect : "I am much obliged to you for thinking of me," or " for your 
goodwill '; but there are so many -poor people in Bramham, it would be a 
shame for me to take ought from them," and from her scanty pittance she 
has frequently been known to supply the wants of others ; nor did she 
wish her alms-deeds to cease with her departing breath, but directed that 
her clothes, &c, (having made several articles of wearing apparel for that 
purpose) should be given amongst the poor, and deposited a sum in a 
neighbour's hand to provide a dinner for twelve widows who were to attend 
her corpse to the grave, she herself having bargained with a publican (who 
was also a widow) to provide a dinner. So independent was she in her 
disposition, that if any of her neighbours sent her anything, as was 
frequently the case, being much respected, she would contrive some little 
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678 BIOGRAPHIA XEODIENSIS. 

present in return, such as a few matches, &c. ; or if it were provision of 
any kind that she could not eat, would have returned it by the bearer. 
As long as she was able she was a constant attendant at church and 
sacrament, and without the appearance of strong religious impressions, 
death was perfectly familiar to her, and she used to speak of it with the 
greatest composure. Though gradually sinking under the pressure of old 
age, she had no previous illness till the day before her death, and even in 
the afternoon of that day was in a neighbour's house ; her eye-sight 
remained good almost to the last, and her faculties were as clear, and 
recollections as strong as ever. To avoid giving trouble, she had prepared 
everything for her funeral ; her coffin she had had eight years, and 
frequently expressed a wish to die in it ; this, however, her sudden 
dissolution prevented. Not long before her death she made with her 
own hands her shroud, winding-sheets, &c, leaving, as she said, " nought 
to be done but to put her into them, and nought to pay but the burial dues, " 
and at the time of her death she did not owe anything, but for one pound of 
treacle, which a person had fetched her on the Saturday, and omitted taking 
pay for, as was usual with her when she sent for any article whatever. 
She had carefully preserved some napkins of her grandmother's spinning, 
to carry her to the grave with, and had procured a mould candle, which 
she had directed should be burnt after her death till ten o'clock,, when it 
was to be extinguished, and her corpse locked up and left alone. She 
never drank so much as half a pint of malt liquor at one time, nor ever 
but once (except the night she died, when she expressed a wish for a tea- 
spoonful of gin) tasted spirits of any kind, and then it was in com- 
pliance with the wish of her father to drink the health of an absent 
brother, and she used to speak of being ill for some days after taking it ; 
her usual beverage was pure water, or water mixed with treacle or milk. 
Nor was she, throughout her life, less remarkable for the simplicity of her 
diet and frugality, than for honesty, activity, and industry ; she was 
always a remarkable early riser, and even to the last could not bear to be 
idle herself, or see others so ; she was of a most cheerful lively disposition, 
and even .those most intimate with her, never heard her murmur or 
complain. She felt acutely the distresses of others, and rejoiced when any 
of her neighbours prospered, but when (which was seldom the case) she 
spoke to her particular friends of her own troubles, — and, " God had given 
her a share," — she always changed the subject as soon as possible, and 
looked to the brighter side. She never had more than three stockings of 
one kind at once, alleging that she could not wash or mend more than one 
at a time, and, therefore, that number was sufficient. — See the Leeds Intel- 
ligencer, &c, for December, 1815. 

Died Nov. 20th, 1853, at Birstal, near Leeds, aged 93, Mary Burnley : 
she was mother to nine children, and grandmother and great-grandmother 
to 112 children. 

Mr. Robt. Bywaier, of Pudsey, near Leeds, died on Sunday, Nov. 8th, 
1840, aged 91 years. 

Died on Thursday, March 6th, 1834, aged 97, Miss Caddy, of Temple- 
newsam, near Leeds. 

Mrs. Mary Carlile, mother of Mr. John Carlile, tobacco-manufacturer, 
Boar Lane, Leeds, died on Sunday, June 14th, 1846, in her 94th year. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 679 

Died on Monday, Nov. 1, 1824, Mr. Wm. Carr, at the advanced age of 
96, formerly a respectable plasterer, in this town, for upwards of forty 
years. 

Benjamin Chambers, of Leeds, was buried in the Leeds Old Church 
burying-ground, aged 93 years. 

Died on Thursday, October 30th, 1828, aged 96 years, Mr. William 
Clapham, of Addlethorpe, near Wetherby. 

Helen Clarice, of Upper Wortley, near Leeds, was interred in Wortley 
Church-yard, April 14th, 1837, aged 91 years. 

Mr. Jno. Clayton, formerly cabinet-maker, but afterwards grocer and 
druggist, at Drighlington, near Leeds, died on Saturday, Sept. 7th, 1844, 
aged 90 years. 

Mr. James Clougli, formerly of Hill House, near Holmiirth, died at his 
son's house at Moiiey, near Leeds, Aug. 18th, 1801, aged 90 years. 

Died on Thursday, March 14th, 1867, Margaret, relict of Mr. Henry 
Clougli, of Batley, near Leeds, aged 90 years. 

Ann Cocker, of Meanwood, near Leeds, died in 1820, aged 110 years. 

Died in August, 1834, at Shipley, aged 100 years, J. Collinson, a veteran 
who served in the American war, and was put on the pension list in 1784. 

Mr. John Copley, of Thwaite-Gate, Hunslet, near Leeds, formerly a 
respectable cloth-manufacturer, died on Sunday, Dec. 16th, 1827, aged 
90 years. 

Died on Monday, Jan. 29th, 1849, in her 104th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Cox, 
of Bank Street, in this town. She retained the use of all her faculties to 
the last. 

On Saturday, Jan. 29th, 1848, a woman, named Jane Coxon, of Leeds, 
died in the 103rd year of her age. She was born on the 12th of March, 
in the memorable year of 1745, and was the widow of Thos. Coxon, a farm- 
labourer, who died in the year 1804. The old lady had borne ten children, 
and leaves four generations of children behind her. In early life she fre- 
quently worked as a labourer in the fields, but during her long existence 
was never known to have a day's illness, or to require medical aid, except 
at her confinements. She retained the use of her faculties to the last, and 
even on the day she died, she prepared her own last meal, consisting of a 
mutton-chop and tea. She partook of that repast, and seemed to enjoy it, 
about four o'clock, but began to complain of illness shortly afterwards, and 
died about six o'clock, at the house of her daughter, Jane Steel, No. 56, 
Ward's Fold, Mabgate, Leeds. There were then living of her offspring 
two daughters, twenty-six grand-children, forty-four great-grand-children, 
and five great-great-grand-children. 

Died on Saturday, April 4th, 1846, aged 90, Mrs. Elizabeth Craven, of 
Bramhope, near Leeds. 

Mrs. Craven, died at Horsforth, near Leeds, in Feb., 1796, aged 90 years, 

Samuel Craven, farmer, of Harewood, near Leeds, was buried Jan. 27th. 
1784, aged 99 years. 



680 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Died on Saturday, June 3rd, 1854, aged 98, at the house of her late 
brother, Mr. John Hobson, of Burley, near Leeds, Ann, widow of Mr. 
David Croft, of Apperley Bridge. 

Died on Monday, April 30, 1855, aged 90, Mr. John Dawson, of Yeadon, 
and father of Mr. Jno. Dawson, who died on Good Friday. 

Mr. Jno. Dean, carpenter, of Westgate, Otley, died on Thursday, June 
22nd, 1843, aged 91 years. 

John Demaine, died January 8th, 1821, at West End, in the parish of 
Fewston, near Otley, at the advanced age of 110 years. The chief 
amusement of his life was that of hunting, which he always pursued 
on foot, and continued until within the last five years of his death. 
He never experienced a day's illness, although he was never known to 
exchange his wet clothes for dry ones, if ever so drenched with rain. 
He has been known to remark, after having attained his 100th year, that 
he was grown old and good for nothing, as he could formerly mow three 
acres of grass in a day, whereas he could then not cut down more than one 
acre. * 

Hannah, widow of the late Mr. James Denton, of Holbeck, Leeds, died 
on Monday, Aug. 24th, 1857, in her 91st year. 

Jemima Dewse, widow of John Dewse, cloth-dresser, an inmate of the 
Leeds Workhouse, died of old age, on Saturday, Jan. 12th, 1867, at the 
advanced age of 100 years. 

Mrs. Jennet Doivglass (or, Jenit Douglas) was interred in or near the 
Leeds Old Parish Church, aged 91 years, April 17, 1686. 

Died on Friday, Feb. 4th, 1842, in her 102nd year, Mercy, relict of the 
late Mr. Samuel Drake, smith and farrier, Shipley. She was in full 
possession of her faculties, and had been a joined member of the Wesleyan 
tody upwards of eighty years. She had fourteen children, fifty grand- 
children, and sixty great -grand -children. 

Mr. John Dyson, of this town, a member of the Society of Friends, 
died on Wednesday, Jan. 4th, 1854, in his 92nd year. 

Jeremiah Eddison, of Wortley, near Leeds, was buried in the church- 
yard there, April 29th, 1847, aged 91 years. 

Mrs. Sarah Eltoft, of Leeds, died on Sunday, Jan. 2, 1859, aged 90. 

Died on Sunday, Dec. 28, 1856, in her 91st year, Mrs. Ely, sen., of 
Grove Terrace, Leeds, relict of the late Daniel Ely, Esq., of Rochester, 
and mother of the late Eev. John Ely, Independent minister, of Leeds. 

Died on Thursday, Aug. 18th, 1853, aged 92, Mrs. Mary Exley, of 
Rawdon, near Leeds. 

Rev. Thomas Faber, M.A., Vicar of Calverley, and perpetual Curate of 
Bramley, near Leeds, died on Thursday, Nov. 29th, 1821, at the advanced 
age of nearly 93 years. He held the former preferment fifty years, the 
latter above sixty-four, and was for many years the oldest member living 
of St. John's Coll., Camb. 

Thos. Fairfax, Esq., son of Chas. Fairfax, Esq., of Menston, near 
Otley, and author of "Analecta Fairfaxiana, " in MS., died at Leedes, in 
Yorkshire, 1716, aged 88 years, and was buried in St. Peter's Church there. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 681 

Died on Saturday, July 16th, 1825, universally esteemed and respected, 
Mr. John Farrar, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, in the 94th year of his age. 

Mrs. Farrar, mother of the late John Farrar, Esq., J. P., of Grove 
House, Pudsey, near Leeds, died on "Wednesday, March 17th, 1841, in the 
91st year of her age. 

Died on Thursday, March 5, 1857, aged 91, Sarah, relict of the late 
Mr. fm. Fearnside, of Leeds. 

Mrs. Anne Fenton lived to the age of 90 years, in which time she saw 
one hundred thirty and eight, descended from her own body. 

Died on Siinday, Nov. 6, 1824, at the advanced age of 95, Mr. Benj. 
Firth, of the Bank, in this town. 

Mr. Atkinson, of Beeston, had an aunt living at Morley, near Leeds, 
in Thoresby's time, Widoiv Foss by name, who was 113 years of age. 

Died on Tuesday, June 5, 1855, in his 93rd year, Mr. John Fretwell, 
formerly of the firm of Fretwell & Cockshott, wholesale grocers, Leeds. 

Died on Tuesday, Feb. 16th, 1841, aged 94, at the residence of her son, 
Eobert Frost, Esq., in this town, Grace, relict of the late Thos. Frost, Esq., 
solicitor, Hull. 

Died on Wednesday, Sep. 4th, 1805, the day on which she completed her 
100th year, Mrs. Garrand, relict of the late Mr. Garrand, formerly a respect- 
able and opulent Lisbon merchant, but the greatest part of whose property 
was swallowed up by the dreadful earthquake which destroyed that city 
in 1755. On that fatal occasion, Mrs. G. was alarmed by a violent shaking 
of the room, and of the chest of drawers in which she was depositing some 
of her husband's linen. She instantly fled out of the house, and escaped 
destruction, after having the afflicting misfortune to see a beloved son and 
daughter overwhelmed in that tremendous convulsion. She then returned 
to England, and having soon afterwards lost her husband, retired to 
Oulton, near Leeds, where she has ever since resided, and where she died. 
This respectable old lady retained her mental faculties unimpaired to 
the last. 

William Gatliff, Esq., died on Thursday, Oct. 27, 1859, at his residence, 
Park Place, Leeds, aged 92. 

Hannah Geldart, of Goodman's Court, Leeds, for nearly 50 years a 
faithful domestic in the family of the late Mrs. Grace Jowitt, died on 
Monday, Sept. 4th, 1848, in her 94th year. 

Died on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1824, in the 92nd year of her age, Mrs. 
Mary Gelder, of this town. 

Mr. James Gill, was interred in or near the Leeds Old Parish Church, 
aged 91 years. 

William Gill, died in Dec, 1816, at Idle, near Leeds, aged 90 years ; 
he was by trade a joiner, and the father of Mrs. Eobson, of that village. 

Died on Saturday, July 3rd, 1830, aged 100 years, Mary Gilliam, widow 
of James Gilliam, who was clerk at Saxton Church for 40 years. 

Isabella, relict of the late Mr. Saml. Glover, dyer, of Leeds, died on 
Sunday, Aug. 21st, 1828, in her 99th year. 



682 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEJN'SIS. 

Mary, widow of Samuel Glover, tanner, of Headingley, near Leeds, died 
on Monday, Jan. 8th, 1844, aged 95. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Gott, widow of the late Benj. Gott, Esq., died on Sunday, 
Aug. 23rd, 1857, at Armley House, near Leeds, in her 90th year. The 
deceased was a lady of exemplary christian piety, and throughout the 
whole course of a long life she enjoyed the friendship and esteem of all 
with whom she was acquainted. By a large circle of relations and friends 
her memory will long be cherished ; and \yj those in humbler spheres of 
life, who have experienced her bounty and liberality, she will ever be 
gratefully remembered. With the trials and vicissitudes of the poor Mrs. 
Gott always commiserated, and none who were deserving of sympathy ever 
applied to her for assistance without meeting with a generous response. 
The deceased erected alms-houses, in which a number of aged women were 
comfortably provided for at her expense ; and no movement was ever made 
in the parish in which she resided having for its object the welfare of the 
population that did not receive her hearty approval and liberal support. 
She died at an advanced age ; but until a few months of her death she was 
in health and strength, and actively engaged in going about and doing 
good. To record her meritorious actions would be as impossible as it is 
unnecessary ; but it may be truly said that she was beloved and respected 
by all. 

Died on Thursday, Jan. 29, 1852, at Woodlesford, near Leeds, much 
respected, aged 93, Mr. James Gough, gentleman. 

Mrs. Sarah Goulden, of Leeds, died on Monday, May 6th, 1844, aged 
97 years. 

Edioard Grace, Esq., of St. Ann's, Burley, Leeds, died Dec. 4th, 1865. 
He had attained the great age of 92 years. He was the senior magistrate 
of the borough of Leeds, but had for some years been incapacitated by age 
and infirmity from taking part in judicial or other public business. 

Mary Grave, died in May, 1797, at Bothwell "Workhouse, near Leeds, 
in the 96th year of her age. She retained all her faculties till within half- 
an-hour of her death, and could read, knit, and sew, without spectacles. 

Died on Tuesday, March 4th, 1806, Mrs. Greaves, widow of the late 
Mr. Edmund Greaves, of this town, in the 97th year of her age. 

Hannah Green, was buried in Wortley Church-yard, near Leeds, July 
13th, 1842, aged 93 years. 

Died June 6, 1856, at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. John Varley, 
of Nottingham, Mr. Edioard Greenwood:, formerly of Dewsbury and Leeds, 
aged 91. 

Mrs. Hague, relict of the late Rev. Joseph Hague, of Holbeck, near 
Leeds, died on Friday, Jan. 5th, 1810, aged 91 years. 

Died on Wednesday, March 18, 1857, in the 93rd year of her age, 
Miss Haigh, of Longlands, Ossett, near Dewsbury. 

John Haley, Esq.., of Waterloo House, Bramley, near Leeds, died June 
2nd, 1857, at the advanced age of 90 years. The deceased rose from a 
comparatively humble position to one of wealth, and was well known as a 
distinguished cloth-manufacturer. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 683 

Mr. Abraham Halliday, cloth-manufacturer, of Armley, near Leeds, 
died on Tuesday, May 25, 1841, aged 91. 

Died on Monday, May 2nd, 1825, aged 91, Mrs. Hannah Hammond, of 
Lydgate, in this town, a widow lady. 

Margaret HardaJcer, late of Rodley, near Leeds, died Feb. 3rd, 1867, at 
the advanced age of 96 years. 

Died on Saturday, April 3rd, 1841, in his 92nd year, Mr. Hargrave, late 
of this town, and father of Mr. Richard Hargrave, paper-stainer, Com- 
mercial Street, Leeds. 

Mr. Banks, steward to the Lord Fairfax, of Denton, acquainted Thoresby 
with a very old man in that neighbourhood, named John Harper, of 
Askwith, who died some years ago, aged 101 years. 

Died Oct. 5, 1855, aged 91, Mr. John Harrison, of Woodhouse Carr, 
near Leeds. He was the father of 14 children, the grandfather of 45, and 
the great-grandfather of 38. 

Mrs. Grace Hartley, of Gildersome, near Leeds, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 
1856, aged 94. 

Died April 14th, 1825, in the 103rd year of her age, Mary, the mother 
of Mr. Jos. Hartley, of Morley, near Leeds. She retained her faculties- to 
the period of her death. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Haste, of Pudsey, near Leeds, died on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 
1841, in her 91st year. 

Mary, relict of the late Mr. Robert Hattersley, of Leeds, died on Monday, 
May 13th, 1850, in her 91st year. 

Died on Wednesday, Jan. 18th, 1826, Mrs. Hawkshaw, mother of the 
late Mr. H. Hawkshaw, of the Harewood Arms public-house, in this town. 

Mr. John HawJcsworth, currier, of Leeds, died on Sunday evening, Feb. 
9th, 1817, in the 92nd year of his age, It was a remarkable fact that the 
business had been carried on by the family upwards of a century. 

Died on "Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1853, aged 95, Mr. Joseph Haywood, 
clothier, of Armley, near Leeds. Deceased was the oldest inhabitant of 
Armley, and had been for 64 years a member of the Armley Clothiers- 
Society. 

John Hebblethwaite, Esq., of Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, died on Friday,. 
May 22nd, 1840, aged 95 years and 9 months. Mr. H. was a man highly 
respected as a merchant and townsman, but he had long retired from 
active public life. This highly respected gentleman had been 80 years in 
the woollen trade, having been apprenticed to the manufacture. As a 
merchant few ever sustained a higher character ; he possessed great 
equanimity of mind, and soundness of judgment. Mr. H. was considered, 
by his party, as the "Father of Reform" in Leeds. He was invariably 
kind and courteous to all, and to the poor especially, he was at all times a 
most humane and liberal benefactor. He enjoyed for nearly 96 years, almost 
uninterrupted good health, and retained his mental faculties to the last. 
The Rev. James Fawcett, the indefatigable minister of Woodhouse Church, 
was previous to his decease his constant visitor ; and after an unusually 
prolonged life, this kind-hearted, humane, and much lamented individual, 



684 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

closed his earthly career in that tranquil cheerfulness, which a true 
christian faith never fails to inspire. The remains of the deceased gentle- 
man were interred on the Thursday following, in the family vault in the 
choir of St. John's Church, Leeds. The funeral train left the late 
residence of the deceased, in Woodhouse Lane, about half-past twelve, the 
hearse and two mourning coaches being drawn by four horses each ; next 
followed the carriage of the deceased, and after it ten other carriages 
belonging to the friends of the departed. The corpse was met in the 
Church-yard by the Rev. F. T. Cookson, M.A., who officiated on the 
melancholy occasion. There was a numerous assemblage of spectators to 
witness the solemn ceremonial. Amongst the gentlemen present were 
observed the Mayor of Leeds (W. Smith, Esq.), T. W. Tottie, Esq., Jas. 
Brown, Esq., Christopher Beckett, Esq., Henry Hall, Esq., James 
Hargreaves, Esq., Benj. Goodman, Esq., Dr. Hunter, Dr. Williamson, 
James Holdforth, Esq., George Goodman, Esq., John Sykes, Esq., John 
Olapham, Esq., Wm. Osburn, Esq., J. H. Oates, Esq., H. Chorley, Esq., 
John Atkinson, Esq., G. B. Nelson, Esq., T. T. Dibb, Esq., John Upton, 
Esq., Thos. W. Bischoff, Esq., H. Skelton, Esq., &c. As Mr. H. died 
without issue, his property descended to his nephews and nieces. 

Mrs. Mary Henson, of Bramhope, near Leeds, died on Thursday, March 
31st, 1854, aged 95. 

Edward Heslin, farmer, of Bramley, near Leeds, died December, 26th, 
1853, in the 90th year of his age. He was father to ten children, grand- 
father to eighty-four and great-grandfather to fifty-six children. 

Died on Saturday, March 24, 1849, in her 95th year, much esteemed, 
Mrs. Hill, of Carlton, near Roth well. Her mother lived to the age of 115 
years, and died not more than four years ago. 

Mrs. Hodgson, wife of Mr. Henry Hodgson, farmer, of East Rigton, 
Wetherby, near Leeds, died in June, 1803, in the 93rd year of her age. 

John Holliday, of Millshay, near Leeds, died on Friday, June 5th, 1812, 
aged 100 years. He left six children, fifty-seven grand- children, one 
hundred and thirty great-grancl-children, and one great-great-grand-child. 
Upwards of one hundred of his children, and grand -children, attended his 
funeral, on Sunday, June 7th. The ages of himself and children were as ' 
follows : — John (the deceased), 100 ; his daughter Mary, 70; Thomas, 
66 ; Martha, 63 ;' William, 60 ; John, 53 ; Samuel, 50 ;— total, 462. 

Died on Sunday, May 13, 1855, in her 90th year, Mrs. Hannali Rollings- 
worth, mother of Mr. Samuel Hutton, and of the late Mr. Charles Harley, 
of this town. 

Mrs. Susannah Hollingsworth, of Pudsey, near Leeds, died on Sunday, 
February 18th, 1816, aged 95 years. She was mother, grandmother, and 
great-grandmother, to upwards of one hundred. She was interred on the 
Thursday following in the Moravian Church, at Fulneck, of which she had 
been a member for a series of years. 

Died on Thursday, Sept. 9, 1852,. aged 101, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, of 
Meanwood-side, near Leeds. She retained full possession of her faculties 
to the last hour. 

Mrs. Ellen Holmes, of Castleford, died on Friday, April 13, 1855, 
aged 95. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 685 

Died on Wednesday, Marcli 29th, 1848, Mary, relict of the late Mr. 
Wm. Holmes, land agent, Leeds, at the house of her son, St. George's 
Terrace, in her 90th year. 

Mr. Matthew Holmes, farmer, of New-road-side, Horsforth, near Leeds, 
died on Sunday, Nov. 25, 1849, aged 94. 

Mrs. Susannah Holmes, died at her son's house, Pudsey, near Leeds, on 
Tuesday, July 9th, 1839, aged 92 years. 

Dorothy Holms, widow, lived in this town (says Thoresby) to the age of 
91 years. 

Died on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1823, aged 91, Mr. Christopher Hopton, stuff 
manufacturer, of Leeds. 

Jane Horner, great-grandmother to Jas. Robinson, of Leeds, was living 
in the Dales '(says Thoresby), being then 109 years of age. 

Died on Wednesday, April 7, 1847, in his 92nd year, Billy Hunt, of 
Bramley, near Leeds ; a well-known character. 

William Hurst, a farm-labourer up to the time of his death, died at 
Micklefield, near Leeds, May 5th, 1853, aged 107 years. His memory was 
unimpaired, and he could read a newspaper without glasses. 

Mr. Wm. Ibberson, of Batley, near Leeds, one of the oldest Methodists 
in the kingdom, died on Monday, Jan. 2nd, 1837. He joined the 
Wesleyan Society nearly 73 years ago, and adorned his christian profession 
by a life of sincere piety to God, and probity, charity, and good- will 
towards man. After having outlived all his neighbours and contemporary 
brethren, in the full possession of his mental faculties, the weary wheels 
of life at last stood still, in the 95th year of his age. 

Died on Friday, Dec. 18th, 1846, aged 97, Nancy, relict of Mr. John 
Ingle, farmer, of Eigton, near Otley. 

Betty Jackson, died at Holbeck, near Leeds, December 22nd, 1828, aged 
106 years. She resided in this village all her life, and when in her 
twenty-third year accompanied the pack-horses with rations to General 
Wade's army, lying at Tadcaster, on its route to Scotland to oppose the 
rebels in 1745. She had not suffered much from the infirmities of age; 
she possessed most of her faculties entire, and retained an uncommon degree 
of sprightliness ; as an instance of which it may be mentioned that, about 
two years before her death, she sang a song with a good deal of 
animation. 

Died on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1822, in the 97th year of her age, in the 
Leeds Workhouse, in which she had been an inmate only three weeks, 
Mary Jaques, late of the Bank, in this town. Her husband Avas killed in 
the year 1753, while passing peaceably along the streets, in what has since 
been distinguished by the name of the ''Leeds Fight," which was a riot 
occasioned by the passing of the turnpike act, in which the military fired 
with such fatal effect, that 8 persons were killed, and about 50 wounded. 
It is rather a singular circumstance, that this venerable matron died on the 
same day that her son was buried, who, in consequence of mental infirmity, 
had resided with her from his infancy to his death, and died on Sunday, 
Sept. 22nd, 1822, aged 62 years. 



686 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Mr. George Jepson, one of the Society of Friends, who had care of the 
Retreat, at York, &c, died at Leeds, on Thursday, Aug. 25th, 1836, in 
his 94-th 3^ear. For a short Sketch of him, see Leeds Mercury, &c. 

Miss Johnson, of Boston Spa, died on Monday, April 18th, 1854, highly 
respected, 



Died at Carlton, on Monday, Jan. 4th, 1830, in his 91st year, Benjamin 
Jowitt, a Member of the Society of Friends. 

Mr. Joseph Kay, of Ossett, father of the late Mr. Benjamin Kay, of the 
Golden Cross Inn, Liverpool, died on Monday, March 28th, 1842, aged 91. 

Ann Keighley, of Hunslet, Leeds, died Sept. 21st, 1798, aged 100 years. 
She was mother, grandmother, and great -grandmother to two hundred and 
fifty -three children. 

Mr. John Keighley, clothier, of Farsley, near Leeds, died on Sunday, 
April 1st, 1810, aged 90 years. 

Anne, relict of Edwd. Kenion, Esq., and only daughter of Francis 
Billam, Esq., M.D., formerly of this town, died on Monday, March 25th, 
1844, aged 96 years. 

Died on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1847, at Bardsey, in her 93rd year, highly 
respected, Mary, relict of the late Mr. John Kcttlcicell, of Garforth, near 
Leeds. 

John Kirk, a brick-maker, died at Buslingthorpe, Leeds, June 11th, 
1850, at the advanced age of 103 years. The deceased formerly resided in 
Park Lane. He came_ from Derbyshire to Leeds in 1763, and was first 
employed in making bricks for the Leeds Infirmary, which was opened 
for the reception of patients in 1768. Up to within two months of his 
death, his eye-sight was perfectly good, and he never had occasion to use 
a stick in walking. 

Rebecca Kirshaw, only surviving daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Kirshaw, . 
vicar of Leeds, and rector of Ripley, died on Friday, May 1st, 1846, at 
her house in Park Place, Leeds, in the 90th year of her age. 

Robert Kitchingman, JEsq., a merchant of Leeds, who died May 7th, 
1716, aged 100 years, at Allerton Hall, near Leeds, which was for 
upwards of four centuries the property and residence of the Kitchingman 
family. It w T as the largest and most ancient mansion in Chapeltown, 
consisting of above sixty rooms, with gardens and pleasure-grounds. It 
was sold about 1755, by James Kitchingman, Esq., to Josiah Oates, Esq., 
merchant, of Leeds. The Kitchingman family, for upwards of four 
hundred years, were carried from this hall by torcn-light, to be interred 
in the choir of St. Peter's church, in Leeds : at the interment of any of 
the family, the great chandelier, consisting of thirty-six branches, was always 
lighted. " The above Mr. Robert Kitchingman ordered his body to be buried 
with torch -lights at Chapel- Allerton ; he was interred on the 16th May, 
when one hundred torches were carried ; the room where the body was laid 
was hung with black, and a velvet pall, with escutcheons, was borne by the 
chief gentry ; the pall -bearers had all scarves, biscuits, and sack ; the 
whole company had gloves. Fifty pounds were given among the poor, 
in the chapel-yard, on the day of his interment. Mary, his wife, died 
July 28th, 1716, aged 97 years and was interred precisely in the same way. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 687 

She was daughter of Alexander Robinson, merchant, of Leeds, and Grace, 
his wife, sister of the illustrious Harrison. Part of the house where Mr. 
Robert Kitchingman lived is yet standing, although the greatest part of it 
was taken down about the year 1730. When Sir Thomas Fairfax took 
Leeds, Henry Robinson, vicar of Leeds, and brother of Mary Kitchingman, 
fled to this house, after having narrowly escaped with his life, in crossing 
the Aire, below St. Peter's church. He afterwards made his escape to 
Methley Hall. Tradition says that King Charles I. was concealed at this 
house before he went to Leeds. Mr. Harrison, the great benefactor, spent 
the summer of 1645 here, when the plague raged in Leeds. Mr. John 
Kitchingman, who died in 1510, is said to have been 115 years old. — For 
their pedigree and coat of arms, see Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 256. 

Mr. Richard Enoicles, of Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury, died on Sunday, 
Jan. 26, 1851, much esteemed, age 94. 

Died on Sunday, Feb. 18th, 1849, aged 92, Elizabeth, widow of Mr. John 
Laburn, of East Keswick, near Leeds. 

Phineas Lambert, weaver, of Thornhill, died on Saturday, June 27th, 
1833, at the advanced age of 94 years. He was a member of the 
Calvinistic persuasion more than sixty years, and enjoyed an uninterrupted 
state of health till within a short time of his death. He was father to 
four generations, viz. : Eleven children, sixty-three grand -children, seventy- 
four great-grand-children, and four great-great-grand-children ; in all 152 
descendants, of whom the greater part were living and followed him to his 
grave. (See the Leeds Intell. for Aug. 3, 1833.) 

Mary Lane, of Churwell, near Leeds, widow of the late John Lane, of 
Rawdon, near Leeds, to whom she was married sixty-nine years, died May 
12th, 1820, after a few days' illness, in the 106th year of her age. She 
retained her faculties to the day of her death, and left behind her seventy- 
six descendants. 

Died on Sunday, June 8, 1851, aged 90, Mr. Win. Leeming, of Camp 
Field, Leeds. 

Mr. Thomas Leuty, of Brass Castle, Norwood, near Otley, died on Wed- 
nesday, June 26, 1851, aged 92. 

Lazarus Levi, a Jew, well known in Leeds and neighbourhood as a 
vendor of spectacles and various kinds of hardware and other articles, died 
at Leeds, in February, 1799, in the 105th year of his age. 

Mary, relict of Mr. Rice Lewis, formerly coal-merchant, of this town, 
died on Sunday, Aug. 1, 1858, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. William 
Haigh, in her 90th year. 

Died on Monday, Nov. 18th, 1850, aged 93, Mrs. Mary Lindley, mother 
of Mr. Thomas Lindley, shopkeeper, Headingley, near Leeds. 

Died on Saturday, Oct. 17, 1846, in her 90th year, Nancy, widow of 
Mr. Samuel Long, clothier, Yeadon, and sister of the late Mr. John Rhodes, 
a master at the Free Grammar School, Leeds. She had been a consistent 
member of the Methodist Society 64 years, and left 84 descendants. 

Jane Lund,oi Hunslet-Carr, near Leeds, died December 27th, 1833, after 
a few hours' illness, in the 100th year of her age. 



688 EIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Died on Tuesday, May 12, 1846, aged 90, Mr. Wm. Machan, joiner, of 
Lofthouse Gate, near Leeds. 

John Mallinson, Esq., cloth-merchant, late of Birstal, near Leeds, died 
on Monday, Dec. 30, 1844, at the house of his son, Mr. John Johnson 
Mallinson, grocer, Dewsbury, aged 92. 

Died on Thursday, April 29, 1824, aged 93, Mr. Hugh Maltby, father 
of Mr. Samuel Maltby, plumber and glazier, of Leeds. 

Richard Man, of Middleton, near Leeds, (according to Thoresby), was 
five years above a hundred, when he died. 

Died on Monday, May 13, 1850, at the Old Star Inn, Collingham, 
greatly respected, aged 91, Mrs. Mary Margerison, upwards of 60 years 
landlady of that old-established inn. 

Mrs. Marsden, of Eawden, near Leeds, grandmother of the Eev. Samuel 
Marsden, principal chaplain at New South Wales, died on Thursday, 
February 9th, 1815, aged 95 years. 

Died on Monday, Sept. 11, 1825, at the advanced age of 104, Mary 
Marshall, of Nelson Street, in this town. She had been blind upwards of 
20 years. 

Hannah, relict of Mr. Geo. Marsland, of Leeds, died Oct. 24th, 1865, 
at Birstal, near Leeds, aged 92 years. She was the last surviving niece of 
the late Dr. Priestley, who was born at Fieldhead, near Birstal. She had 
been a widow upwards of forty years, had sixteen children, and outlived 
them all. 

Mr. Peter Mason, sen., of Leeds, was 45 when he married, yet lived to 
be a great-grandfather. 

Mrs. Matthewman, relict of Mr. John Matthewman, late of Chevet, near 
Wakefield, died at Woodhouse, near Leeds, on Sunday, Aug. 14th, 1831, 
in her 92nd year. 

Hannah Mattheivs, widow, of Bongate, was buried at Harewood Church, 
near Leeds, June 8th, 1774, aged 91 years. 

Dorothy Maud, of East Keswick, widow, was interred at Harewood 
Church, July 12th, 1767, aged 91 years. 

Died in July, 1823, at the Menagerie, Harewood House, near Leeds, 
Mr. Maude, aged. 98 years. 

Mr. Benjamin Maioson, father of Mr. Thomas Mawson, cabinet-maker, 
of this town, died on Saturday, Nov. 17, 1849, aged 90. 

William Maioson, labourer, of Weeton, was buried at Harewood 
Church, April 12th, 1767, aged 95 years. 

Mrs. Mesban, surviving sister of the late John Clayton, Esq. , of Kippax, 
near Leeds, died on Thursday, April 6th, 1854, aged 92. 

Died on Tuesday, July 12th, 1831, in her 90th year, at her residence in 
this town, Hannah, relict of Richard MiddlebrooTc, Esq., late of Thorn. 
In her the poor lost a true friend. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 689 

Mr. John Morkill, of Halton, near Leeds, died on Friday, Dec. 27, 1822, 
after a lingering illness, aged 95. 

Died on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1822, in her 92nd year, Mary, the wife of Mr. 
John Morkill, of Halton, near Leeds. 

Martha Morris, of the Isle of Cinder, Leeds, died on Tuesday, Jan. 14th, 
1812, aged 104 years. 

Mr. William Morris, father of the late Mr. Francis Morris, tanner, of 
Churwell, near Leeds, died on Thursday, March 3rd, 1831, in his 97th 
year. 

Mr. William Morty, of Westgate, Otley, died Dec. 26, 1855, in the 95th 
year of his age. He was the oldest man in the toAvn. 

Died on Sunday, Sep. 13th, 1807, Mr. Samuel Murgatroyd, of Sheepscar, 
Leeds, in the 95th year of his age. 

Died on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1823, at his house, in Bramley, near 
Leeds, much respected, Mr. Simeon Musgrave, in his 90th year. 

John Myers, parish clerk of Guiseley fifty-four years, died Nov. 28th, 
1689 ; he rode a light horse in the trained bands at the Revolution, very 
briskly, though three or four years above his climacteric. The first ten 
years of his clerkship were under good old Mr. Moor, who quite outstripped 
him in number of years, baptizing a child after he came to that benefice, 
and burying the same person threescore years after, being in all sixty- 
three years rector. 

Died Nov. 28th, 1838, aged 92, Mr. Joseph Naylor, formerly a cloth- 
dresser and handle-setter, of Woodhouse, Leeds. 

Mary Ann Naylor, widow, was interred in the Holbeck Cemetery, near 
Leeds, July 8th, 1860, aged 90 years. 

Died on Wednesday, March 23rd, 1831, in the Leylands, Leeds, aged 
95, Miss Nelson, sister of the late Mr. James Nelson, tailor, of this town. 

Mr. Jonathan Nichols, farmer, of Micklethwaite Grange, near Leeds, 
died on Monday, Aug. 25th, 1800, aged 92 years. He had been a tenant 
to the family of the Thompsons, of the Grange, for upwards of seventy 
years. 

Died on Sunday, May 15th, 1842, aged 90, Mary, widow of Mr. Thos. 
Nicholson, cordwainer, of Horsforth, near Leeds. 

Widoiv Nordis, of the Park side. of this town, was "five score and six," 
to use her own expression, which Thoresby's grandmother, who lived in 
that neighbourhood, computed was truly so, by certain other circumstances. 

Died on Monday, March 3rd, 1845, in her 92nd year, at the residence of 
her brother, Wm. Russell, Esq. , Meadow Lane Pottery, Sarah, the wife of 
Mr. Robert Nunns, joiner, of Hunslet, Leeds, much respected by her 
family and friends. 

Mrs. Ogden, of Holbeck, who completed her 106th year a few hours 
previous to her death, died on Friday, September 4th, 1795, at 
Holbeck, near Leeds 

Robert Oglesby, of Leeds, died in 1768, aged 114 years. 



690 BIOGEAPHIA LEODIEXSIS. 

William Osbum, Esq., of Brunswick Cottage, Leeds, for upwards of 
half a century a wine merchant in this town, died on Sunday, Jan. 23, 
1859, at the advanced age of 94. 

Mrs. Eleanor Outhwaite, of this town, mother to Mr. Matthew Outh- 
waite, coach proprietor and postmaster, died on Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 1845, 
highly esteemed, aged 90. She had been a member of the "Wesleyan 
Society upwards of 60 years. 

Died on Saturday, March 16, 1822, aged 94, Hannah, widow of Mr. 
Joseph Overend, formerly the bellman of this town. 

Elizabeth, widow of Mr. Jno. Page, bleacher, of Horsforth, near Leeds, 
died on Saturday, Aug. 26th, 1843, aged 95 years. 

Died June 7th, 1836, aged 90, Mr. John Patchett, of Manningham. He 
lived to see his descendants multiply to more than one hundred, and 
upwards of fifty followed him to his grave. 

Mary, relict of Mr. Jonathan Peniston, late of Elmwood Street, Leeds, 
died on Friday, Nov. 27, 1857, in her 94th year. 

There is an old and exceedingly interesting portrait, at Temple -newsam, 
of one John Philips (said to have been painted by Sir Peter Lely), "who 
lived under eight crowned heads ; was born in Cleveland, in 1625 ; resided 
mostly at Thorner, near Leeds, and died there in 1742, at the patriarchal 
age of 117. A brief obituary of him is to be found in the " Biographia 
Curiosa." 

Joseph Pickles, died at "Wilsden, May 19th, 1828, in his 96th year. He 
left a smwiving progeny of seven children, 73 grandchildren, 179 great- 
grand- children, and 50 great-great-grandchildren ; in all 309, exclusive 
of 101 deceased. 

Died on Wednesday, Nov. 30th, 1853, in her 102nd year, Mrs. Martha 
Pickles, of Headingiey, near Leeds. 

In the summer of 1714, Thoresby saw good old Mrs. Plaxton, mother to 
the ingenious Rector of Berwick-in-Elmet, thread a very small needle 
without spectacles, though in her 90th year. She was able to read also 
written-hand, as well as print, without them. 

Died on Friday, Jan. 28th, 1831, in her 89th year, greatly respected, 
Mrs. Plint, relict of Lieut. Thos. Plint, of the Royal Navy, and mother of 
the late Mr. Plint, of this town. 

Died on "Wednesday, Nov. 13th, 1805, Mr. Poe, of Leeds, aged 90, 
formerly a master cloth-dresser, but had several years ago retired from 
business. 

Nanny, wife of Mr. James Preston, farmer, Dibb House, Yeadon, died on 
Tuesday, March 20, 1855, in her 90th year. 

Died on "Wednesday, March 10, 1858, aged 90, Mrs. Price, of Bedford 
Place, Leeds. 

Mrs. Jane Prince, widow of the late James Prince, stone-mason, of Leeds, 
died on "Wednesday, March 6th, 1811, in the 100th year of her age. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 691 

Justice Hitch, of Leathley, told Thoresby that John Proctor, of that 
place, lived to be 104 or 105, and that he was a strong laborious man, and 
read without spectacles when he was above a hundred. 

And when Thoresby was at York, Widow Proctor, an ancient inhabitant 
of this town, came to visit him when she was in her 93rd or 94th year. 

Died on "Wednesday, May 9th, 1849, in her 96th year, deeply regretted, 
Mary, relict of the late Mr. Richard Pullan, engineer, Soho Foundry, 
Hunslet. 

William Pulleine, of East Keswick, was buried at Harewood Church, 
near Leeds, June 21st, 1679, aged 92 years. 

Died on Simday, June 6th, 1847, aged 95, Mr. Thos. Pybus, of Otley. 

Mr. John Raistrick, of Caley Hall, Otle3% near Leeds, for many years 
steward to the late Walter Fawkes, Esq. , of Farnley Hall, near Leeds, 
died on "Wednesday, July 1st, 1829, at the advanced age of 95 years. The 
deceased enjoyed robust health during his long life, and up to the year of 
his death joined freely in the athletic pleasures of the chase. 

Mrs. Eve Randall, relict of the late Mr. Wm. Randall, bacon-factor, 
of Leeds, died on Saturday, Sep. 29th, 1827, at the advanced age of 
100 years. 

Died on Sunday, Dec. 20th, 1829, at the advanced age of 93 years, 
Eleanor, relict of the late Mr. Isaac Reyner, of Gildersome. This venerable 
lady enjoyed the use of her faculties to the last, and had not her death 
been hastened by a severe fall a few weeks before, appeared likely to live 
many years longer. 

Ann, relict of the Rev. Wm. Rhodes, B.D., died on Thursday, March 
2nd, 1848, at the Grange, Tadcaster, aged 91. 

Died on Thursday, March 18th, 1847, much respectad, in his 92nd year, 
Mr. Benj. Rhodes, of Hightown, father of Mr. Geo. Rhodes, woollen and 
worsted spinner, Heckmondwike, near Leeds. 

Elizabeth RJwdes, of Yeadon, died on Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 1842, aged 91. 

Mrs. Mary Rhodes, relict of Mr. Abraham Rhodes, died at Bramham, 
near Leeds, on Tuesday, May 17th, 1803, in the 90th year of her age. 
This venerable matron was* the mother of ten children, six of whom sur- 
vived her, together with 33 of her grand-children, and 19 great-grand- 
children. Her eldest daughter, with whom she resided for the last 
twenty years, was in the 70th year of her age. 

Susannah, widow of Sheckaniah RJwdes, merchant, of Little Gomersal, 
near Leeds, died on Tuesday, Feb. 13th, 1844, aged 90 years. 

Mrs. Rinder, of Chapel-AHerton, near Leeds, who was sister to the late 
Mr. Simpson of Halton, near Leeds, died on Wednesday, April 16th, 1828, 
in the 100th year of her age. Her loss was deeply lamented by her 
relatives and connexions, who had the happiness to enjoy the amiability 
and equanimity of mind, with which she was happily endowed, even to 
the latest extremity of old age. 

Died on Thursday, April 17th, 1851, in her 95th year, Mrs. Susannah 
Minder, mother of Mr. Jos. Rhodes, artist, of Leeds, 



692 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Mrs. JRoberson, sister of the late Rev. Hammond Roberson, Incumbent 
of Liversedge, died on Sunday, Jan. 5th, 1845, at Heald's Hall, Birstal, 
near Leeds, aged 90. 

Died on Saturday, Sept. 27th, 1851, aged 92, Mr. Wm. Roberts, of 
Birstal, near Leeds. 

Mr. William Roberts, clothier, of Stanningley, near Leeds, died Jan. 31 
1859, aged 90. 

Martha, widow of the late Mr. Josh. Robinson, cloth dresser, of this 
town, died on Wednesday, July 1st, 1846, aged 90. 

Mrs. Robinson, of Bramham (near "Wetherby), died on Thursday, Dec. 
1st, 1825, aged 92. 

Priscilla Robinson, was interred in Wortley Church-yard, near Leeds, 
Not. 30th, 1852, aged 91 years. 

Mrs. Susannah Robshaw, died at East Moor, near Wakefield, on March 
18th, 1807, aged 103 years. She was the mother of twenty-three children, 
three of them at a birth. 

Mary, relict of Mr. Richard Rogers, of this town, died on Sunday, Jan. 
1st, 1854, at the house of her son-in-law, Jacob JSTaylor, Esq., Leeds, in 
her 95th year. 

Died in Oct., 1824, aged 92, fhewife of Thos. Rollison, of Seacroft, near 
Leeds, gardener, who was then living in the 94th year of his age. This 
venerable couple lived upwards of seventy years happily together. 

Thomas Rollison, gardener, died at Halton, near Leeds, May 16th, 
1831, after only a few days' illness. He completed his 100th year, on the 
27th of January, and with the exception of the loss of his eye-sight a 
short time before his death, he had enjoyed uninterrupted good health. 
He had a perfect recollection of visiting the encampment on Clifford Moor, 
in the year 1745 ; and many other events connected with that turbulent 
period were the frequent subjects of his aged narration. He was never known 
to sing, whistle, or swear, and was never but once intoxicated with liquor. 
He lived to me, four generations of his own descendants, who all attended 
him to his grave. Though humble in life, he adorned his station for more 
than a century, by a life of integrity, sobriety, and industry. In the 
"simple, annals of the poor" surely such a man, and such a character, 
cannot in justice be suffered to pass unrecorded. 

The mother of Alderman RooJce, and grandmother to Wm. Rooke, Esq. , 
formerly Mayor of Leeds, lived to her 100th year. 

William Rooke, Esq. , of Dronfield, near Sheffield ; formerly of Kiddall 
Hall, near Leeds, died on Sunday, November 15th, 1812, aged 98 years. 
This gentleman was the only person present at the late choice of a 
registrar for this Riding, who had voted at three elections for that office. 

James Sagar, according to Thoresby, lived to be 112 years of age. 

William Sargison, farrier and shoemaker, died at Farnley, near Leeds, 
in April, 1867, aged 97. 

Died on Friday, Feb. 23, 1855, in her 90th year, Ann, relict of 
Mr. George Scholes, sen., joiner and builder, of this town, for 64 years a 
member of the Wesleyan Society. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 693 

Mr. George Scott, well-known during the peninsular war as a manufac- 
turer of army cloth, died April 29, 1858, aged 92, at Birkinshaw, 
near Leeds. 

Mrs. Mary Scott, of Gildersome, near Leeds, died on Monday, May 16th, 
1837, aged 92 years. 

Stephen Sharp, of Bramhope, near Leeds, died in 1805, aged 107 years. 

Died on Monday, March 14th, 1842, aged 91, at the Waggon and Horses, 
Holbeck-inoor, near Leeds, Mr. Abraham Shaw. 

Grace Shaw, of Cross-Green, in this parish, died March 4th, 1705, aged 
104 years and some months. 

Mrs. Shaw lived in this town (says Thoresby) to the age of 92 years. 

Mrs. Siddatt, mother of Mr. George Siddall, died in January, 1807, at 
Oxton, near Tadcaster, in her 102nd year, much respected. She retained 
all her faculties till the hour of her death. 

Widow Anne Simpson, died at Armley, near Leeds, on Wednesday, 
December, 13th, 1797, in the 102nd year of her age. She had (until a 
short time of her death) enjoyed an uninterrupted state of good health. 

Mrs. Simson, who died about the same time as Mr. Thos. Barnard, lived 
to the age of 103 years. 

Ann Sinclair, widow, was interred in the Holbeck Cemetery,' near Leeds, 
March 7th, 1858, aged 91 years. 

Mr. Richard, Sissons, of Church- Garforth, near Leeds, died on Saturday, 
July 18th, 1857, at the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Thomas Harrison, 
Armley Eoad, Leeds, in his 93rd year. 

Died on Wednesday, June 13, 1855, at the house of her son-in-law, 
John Botterill, Esq., Flower Bank, Buiiey, in her 91st year, Elizabeth, 
relict of Mr. John Smith, of this town. She had been a member of the 
Wesleyan Methodist Society upwards of sixty years. 

Mr. John Smith, formerly of Smithy Flour Mills, Addle, near Leeds, 
died on Sunday, May 22nd, 1853, much respected, in the 98th year of his 
age. The deceased was born and lived in the same house 97 years, and 
there he died. He carried on business as a corn-miller for many years, but 
retired from it some time ago. He was a member of the Wesleyan Metho- 
dist Society for sixty years ; and his upright conduct and business habits 
gained him the. respect of his neighbours far and near. Such was the high 
estimation in which his character was held, that he filled the office of 
executor under no less than fourteen wills, all of which he saw wound up 
before his death. He never remembered having but one slight illness till 
within a few weeks of his decease, and his faculties were almost unimpaired 
to the last. He perfectly recollected going with his father in his boyish 
days to hear Mr. Whitfield and the Kev. John Wesley preach ; the first at 
the horsing steps near Meanwood Mills, and the latter at St. Peter's ("the 
Old") Chapel, Leeds. In his own will he left special instructions that his 
body should be carried to the grave by a certain number of his grandsons, 
and the request was strictly complied with on the Wednesday following, 
when his remains were followed to the grave, in Addle Church-yard, by an 
immense number of relations and friends. Seethe Leeds Intelligencer, &c, 
for May 28th, 1853. 

V V 



694 BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Died on Wednesday, March 2nd, 1842, after a short illness, mnch 
respected, at the advanced age of 93, Mr. Thos. Smith, farmer, of Thorner 
Grange, near this town. He retained all his faculties to the last, and had 
the good fortune to have his eye-sight so perfect as to be able to read with- 
out the aid of spectacles. He was the oldest tenant of the Earl of 
Mexborough, having occupied one farm upwards of sixty years. 

Died on Wednesdajr, June 10, 1857, at Banks Hill, Morley, near Leeds, 
at the advanced age of 94 years, Mrs. William Smith. She was the "oldest 
inhabitant " in the village, and had 12 children, 58 grand-children, and 
60 great-grandchildren, making a total of 130 descendants. 

Widow Somerscale, of Chapel- Allerton, near Leeds, died in October, 
1795, in the 100th year of her age. 

John Soivden, of Brighouse (near Halifax), died March 21st, 1829, in 
the 92nd year of his age. He was born in the house where he died, and 
never lived one month in any other. He brought up to manhood, in the 
same house, ten children, six of whom were at this time living ; and had 
45 grandchildren, and 53 great-grandchildren, 23 of whom were married. 

Mrs. Speight, relict of the late Mr. James Speight, of Birkenshaw, near 
Leeds, died on Thursday, January 4th, 1810, in the 93rd year of her age. 

Died on Sunckiy, June 27th, 1847, aged 97, Mrs. Maria Spring, mother 
of Mr. "William Davis, engineer, of this town. 

Matthew Spurr, of Hunslet, near Leeds, died on Friday, Feb. 25th, 1831, 
aged 98 years, after an. illness of only two days, leaving an uninterrupted 
line of male descendants, of the same name, to the fourth generation. 

Mr. Josias Stansfield had issue seven sons, and lived to see the seventh 
son of his seventh son. 

Died on Tuesday, April 30th, 1850, in his 98th year, Mr. Abraham 
Stead, of Parlington. He was upwards of seventy years a faithful servant 
to the late Sir Thos. Gascoigne, Bart., and E. O. Gascoigne, Esq., of 
Parlington HalL near Leeds. 

Mrs. Hannah Stead, widow of the late Mr. Richard Stead, of the Nag's 
Head Inn, Farnley, and mother to Mrs. George Raistrick, of this town, 
died on Saturday, Dec. 12, 1857, aged 91. 

Mr. Jabez Stead, of Drighlington, near Leeds, one of the Society of 
Friends, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16th, 1825, in his 90th year. 

Died on Tuesday, April 27th, 1841, in his 91st year, Mr. James Stead, 
of Bramley Hill Top, near Leeds. 

Died on Friday, July 2, 1824, at Otley, Mr. John Stead, in the 91st 
year of his age. 

Died on Friday, May 14th, 1830, in his 90th year, Mr. Samuel Stead, of 
Farnley, near Leeds, father of the late Mr. Jonas Stead, cloth manufacturer, 
of the same place. 

Mr. James StocJedale, of Thwaite-gate, Hunslet, Leeds, died on Wednes- 
day, Nov. 20th, 1839, aged 99 years. 

Neriah Storey, of Leeds, died in 1764, aged 100 years. 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 695 

Died Sept. 17, 1857, in the 91st year of her age, Mary, widow of the late 
Mr. Jos. Stubbs, shoemaker, Westgate, Otley. She was the oldest person 
in the place. 

Mrs, M&becca S'ugden, of Water- Slacks, Bramley, near Leeds, died on 
Saturday, July 29th, 1843, aged 94 years. 

Catherine Summergill, of Chapeltown, near Leeds, died in 1794, aged 
100 years. 

Mrs. Frances Sutcliffe, mother of the late Mr. John Sutcliffe, of the 
Wheat Sheaf Inn. in this town, died on Wednesday, Oct. 25th, 1843, 
aged 92 years. 

Hannah, relict of the late Samuel Swaine, Esq. , of Little Horton, near 
Bradford, died on Friday, Dec. 31st, 1841, at Gomersal, near Leeds, in 
her 91st year. 

Died on Saturday, March 6, 1824, in the 93rd year of his age, Mr. 
JRobt. Swaine, formerly a stuff-maker, of this town. 

Elizabeth SyTces, of Low Wortley, near Leeds, was buried in Wortley 
Church-yard, Jan. 1st, 1818, aged 98 years. 

Mrs. Frances Taylor, of West End, Hunslet, Leeds, died on Saturday, 
May 9th, 1839, aged 94 years. 

Mr. Robert Taylor was the first clerk of St. John's Church, Leeds, for 
above sixty-one years, though he had a child that could run about in the 
church-yard when it was building ; Thoresby saw him when he wanted but 
one month of 93. 

Mr. William Taylor, of Weeton, in the parish of Harewood, farmer 
and grazier, father to Mr. Jonathan Taylor, land-surveyor, of Leeds, died 
June 28th, 1813, in the 91st year of his age. 

Died on Monday, Sept. 19, 1859, in the 91st year of his age, Mr. John 
Thackray, of Weardley, near Harewood. He was employed as gardener at 
Harewood House upwards of 60 years. 

Mr. J. Thomas died May 30th, 1820, aged 89 years. He held the office 
of town-crier in Leeds upwards of fifty-five years. 

Mr. Edward Thompson, of Scott Hall, Potter-Newton, near Leeds, a 
venerable and most respectable yeoman, died on Saturday, August 8th, 
1812, aged 92 years. 

Martha Thompson, of Upper Wortley, near Leeds, was buried in Wortley 
Church-yard, Nov. 11th, 1832, aged 90 years. 

In the survey of this parish in 1699, Thoresby called to see a poor 
woman at Farnley, near Leeds, who was 102 years of age, being as old. as 
James Thornton, who, a little before, had died at Pudsey, near Leeds. 

Mrs. Thornton, mother of the late Arthur Ikin, Esq. , one of the alder- 
men of Leeds, died on Saturday, July 4th, 1795, aged 90 years. She left 
£100 to the General Infirmary ; £15 to the Sunday Schools ; and £10 to 
the poor in St. John's and Jenkinson's Hospitals ; and by her death an 
additional sum of £30 per annum also devolves to the poor of St. John's 
.Hospital, Leeds. Mrs. Thornton, a few weeks before her death, gave 
£400 into the hands of trustees, the interest of which was to be appro- 
priated towards the support of a lecture to be preached every Wednesday 
evening, at St. Paul's Church, Leeds. 



696 BIOGKAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

Died on Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, 1850, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. 
Jno. Sexton, cloth-dresser, in her 90th year, suddenly, and highly respected, 
Mary, relict of Mr. Wm. Tinkler, of the Royal Oak Inn, Kirkgate, Leeds. 

Died on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1824, aged 90, Mr. Elijah Tolson, cloth 
manufacturer, of Horsforth, near Leeds. 

Mr. Richard Topham, late of King Street, Leeds, died on Sunday, Jan. 
18th, 1852, at Morley, aged 92. 

Rev. Henry Torre, rector of Thornhill, near Dewsbury, died Dec. 25th, 
1866, aged 93 years. 

Mr. William Tide, 14, Brunswick Street, Leeds, died on Thursday, 
Feb. 28, 1856, aged 93. 

Died on Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 1853, aged 90, Mr. Thos. Farley, of 
Chapeltown, near Leeds. 

Mrs. Martha Waddington, of Clifford, died on Wednesda}^ March 23rd, 
1854, aged 90. 

Died on Thursday, Nov. 2nd, 1848, in her 90th year, Hannah, relict of 
Mr. Isaac Wade, woolstapler, of this town. 

Richard Wade, of Streethouses, near Tadcaster, died on Friday, Jan. 
24th, 1851, aged 94. 

Mr. Nathaniel Wade, of Burley, near Leeds, died on Tuesday, Sept. 
30th, 1800, at the advanced age of 90 years. He was formerly a consider- 
able farmer, but had in a great measure retired from the fatigue thereof. 
Mr. Wade and his predecessors had occupied the farm on which he resided 
upwards of two hundred years, under the families of Montague and 
Cardigan. 

Died on Saturday, July 24th, 1830, at Fairburn, near Aberford, Joanna 
Wailes, aged 102 years. 

Stephen Wainxvright, died on Monday, December 11th, 1797, at Armley, 
near Leeds, in the 90th year of his age. 

Besides William Wait, of Arthington, who was living there in his 
114th year, as Thoresby was informed by that observing gentleman, Cyril 
Arthington, Esq., F.R.S., who, not willing to acquiesce in common fame, 
examined the parish register, and found that he was born in the year 1600 ; 
there was also one John Wait, who was near 100, and was married the 
seventh time. 

Philip Walsh, a pensioner, of JSTo. 2, Portland Street, Leylands, Leeds, died 
Jan. 16th, 1864, aged 90 years. 

Died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1822, Miss Sarah WatJcinson, a maiden lady 
of this town, in the 90th year of her age. For more than the last four 
years of her life she was confined to her chamber, on account of a fall, 
which fractured her thigh. 

In the north side of Batley Church-yard, near Leeds, there is the 
following inscription : — "Here lyeth the bodey of Christopher Watson, of 
Farnley, who departed his life 2nd of August, 1781, aged 104 years." 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 697 

Mrs. Hannah Watson, of Greenside, Pudsey, near Leeds, died Jan. 16', 
1857, aged 93. 

Died Oct. 11th, 1836, in the 90th year of his age, Mr. Charles Webster, 
schoolmaster, of Drighlington, near Leeds. He retained his faculties and 
conducted a school within three days of his death. He was an honest man 
and much respected. His principal food for many years was coarse wheat 
bread and milk. 

Mr. Thos. Webster, upwards of 40 years clerk of Tong Church, near 
Leeds, died in Jan., 1803, in the 97th year of his age. 

Mrs. Bellamy Wells, relict of the late Mr. Thomas Wells, timber- 
merchant, Hull, died on Saturday, Nov. 13th, 1859, at the residence of 
her son-in-law, Mr. James Butler, Briggate, Leeds, aged 93. 

Mr. Robert West, of Harewood, for sixty years a member of the Leeds 
New Union Society, died on Saturday, Nov. 18th, 1843, aged 92 years. 

Mary Whitaker, of Horsforth, near Leeds, died on Sunday, Feb. 18th, 
1844, aged 102 years. She was born about three years before Chas. Edwd. 
Stuart, son of the Old Pretender, asserted his claim to the British crown, 
so that she lived in five reigns. Each intellectual faculty remained 
unimpaired to the last. The following stanza, from Gray's Elegy, discloses 
both her temporal and spiritual state : — 

" Large was her bounty, and her soul sincere, 
Heav'n did a recompense as largely send ; 

She gave to misery all she had— a tear- 
She gain'd from heav'n ('twas all she wish'd) a Mend." 

Mary Whitaker, of Upper Wortley, near Leeds, was buried in Wortley 
Church-yard, Jan. 18th, 1842, aged 92 years. 

Leir Whitehead, a celebrated runner, of Bramham, near Leeds, died on 
the 14th of February, 1787, in his 96th year ; but according to another 
account in the 100th year of his age. 

Thos. Whitfield, of Headingley, in this parish, and Elizabeth, his wife 
(who was related to Thoresby's grandmother), lived in matrimony full 
eighty years : she was married at 18, had 14 children, and died within ten 
weeks of her husband, aged 98 or 99 ; they made nearly 200 betwixt them. 

Died on Monday, April 9th, 1849, aged 95, Mr. Thos. Whitfield, joiner, 
of Wetherby. 

William Wightman, Esq. , late of Cawood, in this county, and father of 
of Mrs. Scholefield, of the Ivy Plouse, Leeds, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 
1858, in the 93rd year of his age. 

Martha Wilby, of East Moor, near Wakefield, died on Thursday, 
Aug. 1st, 1844, aged 101 years. 

Mrs. Ann (alias "Granny") Wilkinson, of Quarry Hill, in this town, 
died April 28, 1856, aged 93. 

Died on Tuesday, Dec. 20th, 1847, aged 98, Mrs. Betty Wilkinson, of 
Horsforth, near Leeds. 



698 BIOGKAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 

On the 8th of January, 1833, died in Butterworth's Yard, Eirkgate, 
Leeds, where she had resided for upwards of sixty years, Elizabeth 
Wilkinson, aged 93, retaining all her faculties till a short time before her 
death. She had often been heard to tell of seeing a hedge growing on one 
side of Marsh Lane, and of the fields coming close up to Kirkgate, at the 
time when she went to live there, though there was scarcely one then 
within half a mile. 

Mrs. WilTcs, mother of Mr. Wilks, late of the White Horse Hotel, 
Leeds, died on Friday, Aug. 30th, 1844, in her 90th year. 

Died on Wednesday, Dec. 19th, 1827, in her 93rd year, Mrs, Mary 
Willans, of Holbeck, Leeds. 

Mr. Wm. Williamson, of Holbeck, Leeds, formerly a respectable 
clothier of that place, died on Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 1844, aged 90 years. 
He had lived more than eighty years in the house he last occupied. 

Ann, relict of Mr. Michael Wilson, of Sherburn, died on Tuesday, Feb. 
8th, 1842, in her 96th year. 

Elizabeth Wilson, relict of the late Mr. R, Wilson, formerly of Leeds, 
died at Knaresborough, on Friday, June 12th, 1840, in the 94th year of 
her age. 

Died on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1848, aged 90, Hannah, widow of Mr. 
Jeremiah Wilson, mill-carrier, of this town. 

John Wilson, Esq., of Spring Field, Little Woodhouse, Leeds, died on 
Monday, April 23rd, 1821, in his 90th year. 

Mr. Major Wilson, who was born at Leeds in 1674, and was the father 
of Benj. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., who died in 1788, lived to the advanced 
age of 110 years. 

Died on the 20th of May, 1831, at Holbeck, Leeds, Mrs. Mary Wilson, 
aged 103 years. 

Died on Tuesday, Sep. 1st, 1829, at Beeston, near Leeds, in her 90th 
year, Mrs. Mary Wilson. She was mother, grandmother, and great- 
grandmother to 59, and aunt and great-aunt to nearly 300 persons. Her 
father died at the advanced age of 101, and was followed to the grave by 
upwards of 100 relations 

Died on Sunday, Jan. 13, 1850, at Hunslet, aged 90, Mr. Richard 
Wilson, formerly of Grey's Walk, and of the late firm of Wilson, Shiilito, 
and Holgate, cattle dealers, Leeds: 

William Wilson, of Whitkirk, near Leeds, died in 1830, aged 101 
years. • 

Mrs. Ann Wood, mother of the late Mr. James Wood, of the Fentons' 
Arms, Hunslet, died March 19, 1841, in her 93rd year. 

Mr. John Wilson, of Faroley, near Leeds, had four haymakers employed in J uly, 
1852; their united ages amounting to 285 yeai3 ; and all living within a few hundred 
yards of Mr, Wilson. 



LEhDS LONGEVITY. 699 

Died Aug. 21, 1855, aged 90, at the house of her daughter, Sarah 
Fogden, Woodman Street, York Road, Mary, widow of the late James 
Wood, who was for 60 years sexton of Addle Church, near Leeds. The 
deceased was mother of 12 children, grandmother of 75, great -grandmother 
of 67, and great -great-grandmother of one. 

Mr. Samuel Wood, of Beeston, near Leeds, died on Sunday, May 10, 
1857, in his 92nd year. He served the office of constable of Beeston for 
39 }*ears. 

Died in Sept., 1804, at Tadcaster, in his 99th year, Mr. Thos. Wood, 
sexton of that parish, which situation he held upwards of 69 years, 

James Wright, of Wortley, in this parish, lived to be above 100 
years old. 

Thomas Wright, of East Keswick, near Leeds, died on Thursday, 
Jan. 12th, 1826, in the 94th year of his age. He had. been a member of 
the "Wesleyan Society seventy years. 

Mrs. Wroe, widow of Mr. Thomas "Wroe, merchant, of Leeds, died on 
Tuesday, January 10th, 1815, aged 90 years. 



An examination of the modern registers, in the churches of Leeds and 
neighbourhood, would have extended this list considerably. 

N.B. — The compiler would be glad to Receive the names, with par- 
ticulars, of any that may have been omitted. — R. V. T. 

P.S. — If the clergy or their clerks would make out a list of those 
that have been interred in their respective burial-grounds, at the advanced 
age of 90 years and upwards, and would kindly send it either to the pub- 
lisher or to the local papers, this list might be made much more complete. 



CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 



DATE. 


NAME. 


PLACE. 


AGE 


1510 


Jno. Kitchingman 


Chapeltown 


115 


1679, June 21 


William Pulleine 


East Keswick 


92 


1680, April 8 


John Booker 


,, 


100 


1686, April 17 ... 


Jenit Douglas 


Leeds 


91 


1689, Nov. 28 ... 


John Myers 


Guiseley 


95 


1696 


Jas. Thornton 


Pudsey 


102 


1698 


Thos. Barnard 


Leeds 


103 


— 


Mrs. Simpson 


,, 


102 


1700 


Poor Woman 


Farnley 


103 


— 


Jane Horner 


Leeds 


109 


1701 


James Sagar 


9, 


112 


1705, Mar. 4 


Grace Shaw 


,, ... 


104 


1710 


John Proctor 


Leathley 


104 


1712 


Widow Nordis 


Leeds 


106 


1714 


William Wait 


Arthington 


114 


— 


John Wait 


,, 


100 


— 


Mrs. Plaxton 


Barwick 


91 


1716 Z 


Widow Foss 


Morley 


114 


— May 7 


Robert Kitchingman ... 


Chapeltown 


100 


— July 28 ... 


Mary Kitchingman 


" 


97 


1742 


John Philips 


Thorner 


118 


1759, Dec. 14 ... 


Jane Bickerdike 


Hare wood 


90 


1764 


Neriah Storey 


Leeds 


100 


1767, April 12 ... 


William Mawson 


Weeton 


95 


— July 12 ... 


Dorothy Maud 


East Keswick 


91 


1768 


Robert Oglesby 


Leeds 


114 


1774 


Major Wilson 


,, ... 


110 


— June 8 


Hannah Mathews 


Harewood 


91 


1777, Aug. 23 ... 


William Bradley 


55 


95 


1781, Aug. 2 


Christopher Watson 


Farnley 


104 


1784, Jan. 27 


Samuel Craven 


Harewood 


99 


1787, Feb. 14 


Leir Whitehead 


Bramham 


96 


1790, April 26 ... 


Rachel Boynton 


Leeds 


90 


1794 


Catharine Summergill ... 


Chapeltown 


100 


1795, July 4 


Mrs. Thornton 


Leeds 


90 


— Sept. 4 


Mrs. Ogden 


Holbeck 


106 


— Oct. 


Widow Somerscale 


Chapeltown 


101 


1796, Feb. 


Mrs. Craven 


Horsf orth 


90 


— Sept. 21 ... 


Ann Keighley 


Hunslet 


100 


1797, Mar. 3 


Wm. Bkkhead 


Cleckheaton 


100 


-- May 


Mary Crave 


Roth well 


96 


— Dec. 11 


Stephen Wainwright ... 


Armley 


90 


— Dec. 13 


Anne Simpson 


,, 


102 


1799, Feb. 


Lazarus Levi 


Leeds 


105 


1800, Aug. 25 ... 


Jonathan Nichols 


Micklethwaite 


92 


— Sept. 30 


Nathaniel Wade 


Burley 


90 


1801, Ausr. 18 ... 


James Clough 


Morley 


90 


1802, Dec. 


Mrs. Buhner 


Buslingthorpe 


99 



LEEDS LONGEVITY, 



701 



DATE. 


NAME. 


PLACE. 


AGE 


1803, Jan. 


Thomas Webster 


Tong 


96 


— May 17 


Mary Rhodes 


Bramham 


9) 


— June 


Mrs. Hodgson- 


Wetherby 


93 


1804 


Grace Barnard 


Leeds 


101 


— Sept. 


Thomas Wood 


Tadcaster 


89 


— Oct. 26 


Mrs. Beezon 


Leeds 


93 


1805 


Mrs. Arton 


Potternewton 


105 


— 


Stephen Sharp 


Bramhope 


107 


— Sept. 4 


Mrs. Garrand 


Oulton 


100 


— Nov. 13 ... 


Mr. Poe 


Leeds 


90 


1806, Mar. 4 


Mrs. Greaves 


,, 


97 


— Aug. 14 ... 


Mrs. Battey 


Garf orth 


100 


1807, Jan. 


Mrs. Siddall 


Tadcaster 


102 


— Mar. 18 ... 


Susannah Robshaw 


East Moor 


103 


— Sept. 13 ... 


Samuel Murgatroyd 


Sheepscar 


95 


1809 


Mary Airton 


Horsf orth 


105 


1810, Jan. 4 


Mrs. Speight 

Mrs. Hague ..; 


Birkenshaw 


93 


— Jan. 5 


Holbeck 


91 


— April 1 


John Keighley 


Farsley 


90 


— May 14 


Rachel Brown 


Temple-Newsam 


104 


1811, Mar. 6 


Jane Prince 


Leeds 


100 


1812, Jan. 14 


Martha Morris 


,, 


104 


— June 5 


John Holliday 


Millshay 


100 


- Aug. 8 


Edward Thompson 


Potternewton 


92 


— Nov. 15 ... 


William Rooke 


Kiddall 


98 


1813, June 28 ... 


William Taylor 


Weeton 


91 


1815, Jan. 10 ... 


Mrs. Wroe 


Leeds 


90 


— Feb. 9 


Mrs. Marsden 


Rawdon 


95 


— Nov. 26 ... 


Elizabeth Burley 


Bramham 


96 


1816, Feb. 18 


Susannah HoUingworth . . . 


Pudsey 


95 


— Dec. 


William Gill 


Idle 


90 


1817, Feb. 9 


John Hawks worth 


Leeds 


92 


1818, Jan. 1 


Elizabeth Sykes 


Wortley 


98 


1820, Jan. 8 


John Demaine 


Otley 


110 


— 


Ann Cocker 


Mean wood 


110 


— May 12 ... 


Mary Lane 


Churwell 


106 


— May 30 


John Thomas 


Leeds 


89 


1821, April 6 


Mary Blackburne 


,, 


90 


•— ' April ^3 ... 


John Wilson 


Woodhouse 


90 


— Nov. 29 ... 


Rev. Thos. Faber 


Bramley 


93 


1822, Jan. 8 


Mary Morkill 
Sarah Watkinson 


Halton 


92 


— Jan. 15 


Leeds 


90 


— Mar. 16 ... 


Hannah Overend 




94 


— Sept. 25 ... 


Mary Jaques 


,, 


96 


— Dec. 27 


John Morkill 


Halton 


95 


1823, Feb. 12 


Simeon Musgrave 


Bramley 


90 


— July 


Mr. Maude 


Harewood 


98 


— Nov. 25 ... 


Christopher Hopton 


Leeds 


91 


1824, Mar. 6 


Robert Swaine 


... 


92 


— April 29 ... 


Hugh Maltby 


... 


93 


— July 2 


John Stead 


Otley '.'.'. 


91 


— Aug. 4 


Elijah Tolson 


Horsf orth 


90 


— Sept. 8 


Mary Gelder 


Leeds 


92 


— Oct. 


Mrs. Rollison 


Seacroft 


92 


— Nov. 1 


William Carr 


Leeds 


96 


— Nov. 6 


Benjamin Firth 


,, 


95 



702 



BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS. 



DATE. 


NAME. 


PLACE. 


AGE 


1824, Dec. 29 


Mary Beaumont 


Thornhill 


92 


1825, Feb. 16 


Jabez Stead 


Drighlington 


90 


— Mar. 15 ... 


James Atkinson 


Hunslet 


94 


— April 14 


Mary Hartley 


Morley 


103 


— May 2 


Hannah Hannnond 


Leeds 


91 


— July 16 


John Farrar 


Lofthouse 


94 


— Sept. 11 ... 


Mary Marshall 


Leeds 


104 


— Dec. 1 


Mrs. Robinson 


Bramham 


92 


1826, Jan. 12 ... 


Thomas Wright 


East Keswick 


94 


— Jan. 15 


James Brayshaw 


Idle 


87 


— Jan. 15 


Martha Brayshaw 


Calverley 


— 


— Jan. 18 


Mrs. Hawkshaw 


Leeds 


90 


1827, Sept. 29 ... 


Eve Bandall 


,, 


100 


— Dec. 16 


John Copley 


Hunslet 


90 


— Dec. 19 


Mary Willans 


Holbeck 


92 


1828, April 16 ... 


Mrs. Binder 


Chapeltown 


100 


— April 24 ... 


James Benson 


Barwick 


90 


— May 19 


Joseph Pickles 


Wilsden 


96 


— Aug. 21 ... 


Isabella Glover 


Leeds 


99 


— Oct. 23 


Elizabeth Broughton . . . 


Farnley 


91 


— Oct. 30 


William Clapham 


Wether by 


96 


— Dec. 22 


Betty Jackson 


Holbeck 


106 


1829, Feb. 5 


Joseph Blackburn 


Leeds 


94 


— Mar. 21 ... 


John Sowden 


Brighouse 


92 


— Julyl 


John Baistrick 


Otley 


95 


— Sept. 1 


Mary Wilson 


Beeston 


90 


— Dec. 20 


Eleanor Beyner 


Gildersome 


93 


1830, Jan. 4 


Benjamin Jowitt 


Carlton 


91 


— Feb. 17 .. 


Charles Atkinson 


Hunslet 


94 


— 


William Wilson 


Whitkirk 


101 


— May 14 


Samuel Stead 


Farnley 


90 


— July 3 


Mary Gilliam 


Saxton 


100 


— July 24 


Joanna Wailes 


Fairburn 


102 


1831, Jan. 28 


Mrs. Plint 


Leeds 


89 


— Feb. 25 ... 


Matthew Spurr 


Hunslet 


98 


— Mar. 3 


William Morris 


Churwell 


97 


— Mar, 23 ... 


Miss Nelson 


Leeds 


95 


— May 16 


Thomas Bollinson 


Halton 


100 


— May 20 


Mary Wilson 


Holbeck 


103 


— June 


Mrs. Arton 


Potternewton 


90 


— July 12 


Hannah Middlebrook ... 


Leeds 


90 


— Aug. 14 


Mrs. Matthewman 


Woodhouse 


92 


1832, May 21 ... 


John Bennitt 


Bramley 


91 


— Nov. 11 ... 


Martha Thompson 


Wortley 


90 


1833, Jan. 8 


Elizabeth Wilkinson 


Leeds 


93 


— June 27 


Phineas Lambert 


Thornhill 


94 


— Dec. 27 


Jane Lund 


Hunslet 


100 


1834, Mar. 6 


Miss Caddy 


Temple-Newsam 


97 


— Aug. 


J. Collinson 


Shipley 


100 


1836, June 7 


John Patchett 


Manningham 


90 


— Aug. 25 


George Jepson 


Leeds 


94 


— Oct. 11 


Charles Webster 


Drighlington 


90 


1837, Jan. 2 


William Ibberson 


Batley 


95 


— April 14 


Helen Clarke 


Wortley 


91 


— May 16 


Mary Scott 


Gildersome 


92 


— Dec. 9 


William Booth 


Seacroft 


92 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 



703 



1837, 


Dec. 


26 ... 


1838, 


Nov. 


28 ... 


1839, 


May 9 


— 


July 


9 


— 


Nov. 


20 ... 


1840, 


Mar. 


31 ... 


— 


May 


22 


— 


June 12 


— 


Sept. 


7 


— 


Nov. 


8 


1841 


Feb. 


16 


— 


•Mar. 


17 ... 


— 


Mar. 


19 ... 


— 


Apri 


3 


— 


April 27 ... 


— 


May 


25 ... 


— 


Aug. 


17 ... 


— 


Dec. 


31 ... 


1842 


Jan. 


18 


— 


Feb. 


4 


— 


Feb. 


8 


— 


Mar. 


2 


— ' 


Mar. 


14 ... 


. — 


Mar. 


28 ... 


— 


May 


15 ... 


— . 


.May 


18 


— 


July 13 


— 


Sept 


22 ... 


— 


Sept 


26 ... 


1843 


, June 


22 ... 


— 


July 29 


— 


Aug. 


26 ... 


— 


Oct. 


25 


— 


Nov. 


18 ... 


1844 


, Jan. 


8 


— 


Feb. 


13 ... 


— 


Feb. 


18 ... 


— 


Mar. 


25 ... 


— 


May 


6 


— 


Auar 


30 ... 


— 


Sept 


7 


— 


Nov 


5 


— 


Dec. 


30 ... 


184£ 


, Jan. 


5 


— 


Feb. 


1L 


— 


Mar 


3 


1846 


, April 4 


— 


May 


1 


— 


May 


12 ... 


— 


June 14 


— 


July 


1 


— 


Oct. 


17 


— 


Dec. 


18 


— 


Dec. 


25 ... 


184' 


', Jan. 


13 


— 


Mar 


. 18 ... 



NAME. 


PLACE. 


AGE 


Eden Bennett 


Stanningley 


91 


Joseph Naylor 


Woodhouse 


92 


Frances Taylor 


Hunslet 


94 


Susannah Holmes 


Pudsey 


92 


James Stockdale 


Hunslet 


99 


Charles Brook 


Wike 


93 


John Hebblethwaite 


Leeds 


95 


Elizabeth Wilson 


,, 


94 


George Watson 




89 


Robert By water 


Pudsey 


91 


Grace Frost 


Leeds 


94 


Mrs. Farrer 


Pudsey 


91 


Ann Wood 


Hunslet 


93 


Mr. Hargrave 


Leeds 


92 


James Stead 


Br am ley 


91 


Abraham Halliday 


Arm ley 


91 


Elizabeth Haste 


Pudsey 


91 


Hau nah S waine 


Gomersal 


91 


Mary Whitaker 


Wortley 


' 92 


Mercy Drake 


Shipley 


102 


Ann Wilson 


Sherburn 


96 


Thomas Smith 


Thorner 


93 


Abraham Shaw 


Holbeck 


91 


Joseph Kay 


Ossett 


91 


Mary Nicholson 


Horsforth 


90 


Ellen Bottom 


Bramley 


90 


Hannah Green 


Wortley 


93 


Elizabeth Rhodes 


Yeadon 


91 


Jane Barrand 


Bramhope 


97 


John Dean 


Otley 


91 


Rebecca Sugden 


Bramley 


94 


Elizabeth Bage 


Horsforth 


95 


Frances Sutcliffe 


Leeds 


92 


Robert West 


Harewood 


92 


Mary Glover 


Headingley 


95 


Susannah Bhodes 


Gomersal 


90 


Mary Whitaker 


Horsforth 


102 


Anne Kenion 


Leeds 


96 


Sarah Goulden 


,, 


97 


Mrs. Wilks 


,, 


90 


John Clayton 


Drighlington 


90 


William Williamson 


Holbeck. 


90 


John Mallinson 


Dewsbury 


92 


Mrs. Roberson 


Birstal 


' 90 


Eleanor Outhwaite 


Leeds 


90 


Sarah Nunns 


Hunslet 


92 


Elizabeth Craven 


Bramhope 


90 


Rebecca Kirshaw 


Leeds 


90 


William Machan 


Lofthouse 


90 


Mary Carlile 


Leeds 


94 


Martha Robinson 


,, 


90 


Nancy Long 


Yeadon 


90 


Nancy Ingle 


Otley 


97 


Elizabeth Bearpark 


Leeds 


91 


Mary Kettlewell 


Bardsey 


93 


Benjamin Rhodes ... 


Heckmondwike 


92 



704 



BIOGRAPHIA LEODIEXSIS, 



1847 


, April 7 ... 


— 


April 29 ... 


— 


June 6 


— 


June 27 ... 


— 


Dec. 20 


184S 


, Jan. 29 


— 


Mar. 2 


— 


Mar. 29 ... 


— 


Sept. 4 


— 


Nov. 2 


184S 


, Jan. 29 


— 


E.eb. 18 


— 


Mar. 24 ... 


— 


April 9 


— 


May 3 


— 


May 7. ... 


— 


May- 9 


— 


Nov. 17 ... 


— 


Nov. 25 


1850 


, Jan. 13 


■ — 


Jan. 20 


— 


April 30 ... 


■ — 


Mavl3 


— 


May 13 


— 


June 11 


— 


Nov. 18 ... 


— 


Dec. 3 


1851 


.Jan. 24 


— 


Jan. 26 


■ — 


April 17 ... 


— 


April 


. — 


June 8 


— 


June 18 


— 


June 26 ... 


— 


June 30 


■ — 


Sept. 27 ... 


1852 


, Jan. 18 


— 


Jan. 29 


— 


Sept. 9 


— ■ 


Xov. 30 ... 


1853 


Mar 5 


— 


May 22 


— . 


Au°r. 18 ... 


— 


Sept. 22 ... 


— 


Nov. 20 ... 


— 


Nov. 30 ... 


— 


Dec. 7 


— 


Dec. 26 


1854 


Jan. 1 


— 


Jan. 4 


— 


Mar. 10 ... 


. — 


Mar. 23 ... | 


— 


Mar. 31 


— 


April 6 ... : 


■ — 


April IS ... 


— 


June 3 



Billy Hunt 


Bramley 


92 


Jeremiah Eddison 


Wortley 


91 


Thomas Pybus 


Otley 
Leeds 


95 


Maria Spring 


97 


Betty Wilkinson 


Horsforth 


98 


Jane Coxon 


Leeds 


103 


Ann Rhodes 


Tadcaster 


91 


Mary Holmes 


Leeds 


90 


Hannah Geld art 


,, 


94 


Hannah Wade 


,, 


90 


Elizabeth Cox 


,, 


104 


Elizabeth Laburn 


East Keswick 


92 


Mrs. Hill 


Roth well 


95 


Thomas Whitfield 


Wetherby 


95 


Philippa Brooksbank ... 


Healaugh 


90 


John Barker 


Rodley 


90 


Mary Pullan 


Hunslet 


96 


Benjamin Mawson 


; Leeds 


90 


Matthew Holmes 


Horsforth 


94 


Richard Wilson 


Hunslet 


90 


Hannah Barret 


Idle 


96 


Abraham Stead 


Partington 


98 


Mary Hattersley 


Leeds 


91 


Mary Margerison 


Collin°ham 


91 


John Kirk 


Buslingthorpe 


103 


Mary Lindiey 


Headingley 


93 


Mary Tinkler 


Leeds 


90 


Richard Wade 


Tadcaster 


94 


Richard Knowle3 


Thornhill 


94 


Susannah Rinder 


Leeds 


95 


Hannah Baines 


Thornhill 


97 


William Leeming 


Leeds 


90 


Nancy Brown 


Yeadon 


99 


Thomas Leuty 


Otley 


92 


Mrs. Bradley 


55 


99 


Wm. Roberts 


Birstal 


92 


Richard Topham 


Morley 


92 


James Gough 


Woodlesford 


93 


Elizabeth Holmes 


Meanwood 


101 


Priscilla Robinson 


W^ortley 


91 


John Hurst 


Micklefield 


107 


John Smith 


Addle 


98 


Mary Exley 


Rawdon 


92 


Thomas Varley 


Chapeltown 


90 


Mary Burnley 


Birstal 


93 


Martha Pickles 


Headingley 


102 


Jos. Haywood 


Armley 


95 


Edward Heslin 


Bramley 


90 


Mary Rogers 


Leeds 


95 


John Dyson 


5? — 


92 


Mrs. Aked 


Shipley ... ! 


92 


Martha Waddington ... 


Clifford 


90 


Mary Henson ... - 


Bramhope 


95 


Mrs. Mesban 


Kippax 


92 


Miss Johnson ... ( 


Boston Spa 


98 


Ann Croft 


Burley ... | 


98 



LEEDS LONGEVITY. 



705 



PLACE. 
1*_ 



1855, Feb. 23 

— ' Mar. 20 

— April 13 

— April 30 

— May 13 

— June 5 

— June 13 

— Aug. 21 

— Oct. 5 

— Dec. 26 

1856, Feb. 28 

— April 28 

— June 6 

— Dec. 28 

— Dec. 30 

1857, Jan, 16 

— Mar. 5 

— Mar. 18 

— May 10 

— June 2 

— June 10 

— July 18 

— Aug. 23 

— Aug. 24 

— Sept. 17 

— Nov. 27 

— Dec. 12 

1858, Mar. 7 

— Mar. 10 

— April 29 

— Aug. 1 

— Dec. 15 

1859, Jan. 2 

— Jan. 23 

— Jan. 31 

— Sept. 19 

— Oct. 27 

— Nov. 13 

1860, July 8 
1861-63* 

1864, Jan. 16 

1865, Oct. 24 

— Dec. 4 

1866, Dec. 25 

1867, Jan. 12 

— Feb. 3 

— Mar. 14 

— April 



^Ann Scholes 
Nanny Preston 
Ellen Holmes 
Jobn Dawson 
Hannah Hollingsworth 
John Fretwell 
Elizabeth Smith 
Mary Wood 
John Harrison 
William Morty 
William Tute 
Ann Wilkinson 
Edward Greenwood 
Mrs. Ely, sen. 
Grace Hartley 
Hannah Watson 
Sarah Fearnside 
Miss Haigh 
Samuel Wood 
John Haley 
William Smith 
Richard Sissons 
Elizabeth Gott 
Hannah Denton 
Mary Stubbs 
Mary Peniston 
Hannah Stead 
Ann Sinclair 
Mrs. Price 
George Scott 
Mary Lewis 
William Wightman 
Sarah Eltoft 
William Osburn 
William Roberts 
John Thackray 
William Gatliff 
Bellamy Wells 
Mary Ann Naylor 

Philip Walsh • 
Hannah Marsland 
Edward Grace 
Rev. Henry Torre 
Jeremiah Dewse 
Margaret Hardaker 
Margaret Clough 
Win. Sargison 



Leeds 

Yeadon 

Castleford 

Yeadon 

Leeds 

Burley 

Leeds 

Otley 
Leeds 



Gildersome 

Pudsey 

Leeds 

Ossett 

Beeston 

Bramley 

Morley 

Garforth 

Armley 

Holbeck 

Otley 

Leeds 

Farnley 

Holbeck 

Leeds 

Birkenshaw 

Leeds 



Stanningley 

Harewood 

Leeds 

55 

Holbeck 

Leeds 

Birstal 

Burley 

Thornhill 

Leeds 

Rodley 

Batley 

Farnley 



90 
90 
95 
90 
90 
93 
91 
90 
91 
95 
93 
93 
91 
91 
94 
93 
91 
93 
92 
90 
94 
93 
90 
91 
91 
94 
91 
91 
90 
92 
90 
93 
90 
94 
90 
95 
92 
93 
90 

90 
92 
92 
93 
100 
96 
90 
97 



* An examination of the Leeds newspapers and Burial Registers for the last six or 
seven years would have materially augmented this list. Additional names. &c, 
would be gladly received.— R. V. T. 



LEEDS BOOKS, &c. 



A Supplementary List of some of the rare old Books, &c, published in 
Leeds and neighbourhood (on sale by Mr. John Camden Hotten, 
Piccadilly, London) ; many of which might appropriately be deposited 
in the Leeds Old Library. 

Airedale in Ancient Times, and other Poems on local subjects, by John 
Nicholson, the Airedale Poet, 2 plates, 3s. 1825. 

Atkinson (Rev. Miles, of Leeds), Discourse at his Death, with particu- 
lars of him, by Thos. Dikes, of Hull, Svo., 2s., 1811. 

Birstall. — Nelson's (John, walking preacher, born at Birstall, 1707) 
Journal, Life of, 12mo., 2s. 6d., never before published (1807). 

Bosanquet (Mary, of Leeds), An Aunt's Advice to a Niece, also Account of 
a Correspondence with Dr. Dodd, 12mo., 2s. 6d., Leeds, J. Bowling, 1710. 

Bowman's (Win., of Dewsbury), Discourse at the Visitation held at 
Wakefield, June 25, 1731, 12mo., 2s. 6d. 

Dewsbury.— A full Justification of the Doctrines advanced in Mr. 
Bowman's Visitation Sermon, 8vo., 2s. 6d., 1731. 

Holbeck. — Fawcett's (Richard, of Holbeck, parish of Leedes) Discourse 
on giving up the Curacy of Holbeck, Svo. , with notes about the place, 3s. , 
Leeds, printed 1755. 

Lake's (J. , of Leeds, afterwards Bishop of Chichester), Defence of the 
Profession made upon his death-bed, with Life, 4to., curious, 4s. 6d., 1690. 

Leeds. — Memoir of Benj. Wilson, F.R.S., born at Mill Hill House, near 
Leeds, 1721, the friend of Dr. Franklin, 8vo., original (unpublished) 
manuscript, 4s. 6d., written by Gk H. Gilchrist, 1826. 

Leedes. — Narrative on the Management of the late Contest for the 
Vicarage of Leedes (by James Scott, of Leedes), 8vo., Leedes, printed, 
1750. 

Leedes. — Brief and Candid Review of the Narrative on the Vicarage of 
Leedes, bv R. Fawcett, Leedes, printed 1751. 

Leedes. — Fawcett's Discourse at Holbeck, 8vo., Leedes, with other 
Tracts, 5s., 1750-56. 

Methley. — Briggs' (John, of Methley) Discourse on Visit of the Bishop, 
8vo., Is. 6d., 1781. 

Morley. — Whitaker's (W., of Leeds) Two Discourses at Morley, near 
Leeds, the last he ever preached, 8vo., 2s. 6d., or 12mo., Is., 1770. 

Nelson family, of Birstall. — Journal of Mr. John Nelson, of BirstalL 
near Leeds, 1707-49, 12mo., 2s., 1813. 

Parochial Registers of Yorkshire. Lucas' ( Jas. , of Leeds) Inquiry into 
the present State of Parochial Registers, Charitable Funds, Taxation, and 
Parish Rates, sm. 8vo., pp. 140, 3s. 6d., Leeds, printed 1791, &c, &c. 



RECENT APPOINTMENTS, &c. 



Mayors of Leeds. 

1865, Nov. — Henry Oxley, Esq. 

1866, ,, — Andrew Fairbairn, Esq. 

1867, „ — „ 

Borough Coroner. 

1865, Nov. — Geo. Atkinson Emsley, Esq. 

Town Cleric. 

1867, March. — Capel Augustin Curwood, Esq. (from Liverpool,) 

Borough Surveyors. 

John Child. i 1846. — Chas. Tilney, C.E. 

Thos. Walker. | 1859.— Edw. Filliter, C.E. 

1865, June. — Alfred Mountain Fowler, C.E. (from Kochdale.) 

Sanitary Inspector. 
1866. — Dr. Major Kirkby Robinson, (from Manchester.) 

Borough Organist. 
1865.— Wm. Spark, Mus. Doc. 

Chief Constable. 
1866. — Mr. James Wetherill. 

Vicar of St. John's Church, Leeds. 
1867, March. — Rev. Henry Temple, M.A., Oxon. (from Coventry.) 

New Magistrates. — March, 1867. 



Andrew Fairbairn, Esq. 
Samuel Hey, Esq. 
Robt. Jno. Hudson, Esq. 
Wm. Scarborough Jackson, Esq. 
Thos. J. Kinnear, Esq. 



Henry Oxley, Esq. 
John Rhodes, Esq. 
Anthony Titley, Esq. 
Richard Bickerton Turner, Esq. 



Borough Members. 
1865, July. — G. S. Beecroft, Esq. (Conserv.), 3223. 
,, —Ed wd. Baines, Esq. (Liberal), 3045. 
„ — Viscount Amberley (Liberal), 2902. 



INDEX; or, ALPHABETICAL LIST. 



Note.— The Sketches of those Worthies whose names are printed in Italics will be 
found in the Notes. 



PAGE. 

Asgill, John, Esq., M.P 567 

Atkinson, Mr. Thomas 551 

Barnard, Rev. Thos., M. A 584 

Blackburn, John, Esq 601 

Blake, Mr. Barnett 611 

Bowman, Rev. Wm., M. A 581 

Mr. William 599 

Braham, Mr. Robert 551 

Brameld, Rev. A. J. 608 

Brandling, Lieut. -Colonel .. .. 599 

Buck, Samuel, Esq 590 

Cash, Newman, Esq 622 

Casley, Mr. David 5S5 

Clapham, John, Esq 600 

Collier, Rev. C.H.,M. A. 621 

Cromek, Mr. Robert H 591 

Mr. Thos.H... 591 

Dean, Richard, General . . . . 551 

Eddison, Edwin, Esq 631 

Gale, Rev. Miles, M.A. . . . . 575 

Garlwk, Jos. Prince, Esq 601 

Gott, John, Esq., J.P 634 

Green, Mrs. Eliza Craven 610 

Grostete, Robert, Bishop . . . . 549 

Guest, Lieut. -General . . .. .. .. 584 

Hargreave, Hon., Judge .. .. 614 
Hart, Rev. Joshua, B. A 608 

Hickeringill, Rev. Edmund . . . . 568 



Ibbotson, Mr. Julius Cjesar 



592 



Knight, Gawen, E 
Knowles, Chas. Jas. 



M.D., E.R.S. 589 
q., Q.C. .. 633 



Lascelles, Hon. Edwin, D.C.L.. 
Linley, Mr. George . . . . 



606 



page. 
Lucas, Mr. John 584 

Major, Mr. Joshua 609 

Marsden, Rev. Samuel 593 

Monro, Rev. Edward, M.A 623 

Moore, John, Esq 576 

Morris, Castilion, Esq 565 

,, Colonel, John 565 

Nalson, Rev. John, LL.D 561 

Nesse, Rev. Christopher, A.M. .. 566 

„ Mr. Robert 566 

Nettleton, Thos. , Esq. ,M.D 581 



Plaxton, Rev. George, M.A. 
Procter, Bev. Joseph, D.D. 



576 
599 



RATHBONE, Mr. JOHN 590 

Reyner, Rev. Edward, M.A 559 

Richardson, James, Esq 600 

Roberts, Rev. Francis, D.D 559 

Rowell, Rev. F. T., M.A 608 

Ryther, Mr. Augustine 551 

Sharp, Rev. Thomas, A.M 563 

Sisson, Rev. Jos. Lawson, D.D. .. 630 
Smith. John, Esq., J.P 621 

Stansfeld, Hamer, Esq., J.P. ■ .. 602 

Tilson, Henry, Bishop 558 

Tunnicliff, Rev. Jabez 604 

Whitaker, Rev. Thomas 572 

Wilkinson, Rev. Christopher . . 566 

Wilson, Benj., Esq., E.R.S. .-. .. 639 

Wilson, Mr. Thos., E.S. A 587 

List of Portraits . . 649 

Leeds Longevity 674 

Leeds Books, &c 706 

Recent Appointments . . . . . - 707 
Alphabetical List 708 



AN ALPHABETICAL LIST 

OP THE 

(Within a circle of about ten miles, omitting those of Bradford and Wakefield) , 

WHOSE HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES 

WILL BE CONTAINED IN THE 

" EGGLESIJS LEODIENSES." 



Aberford 


Hanging Heaton 


Moor-Allerton 


Adel 


Harewood 


Morlev 


Armley 


Hartsliead 


Ossett (2) 


„ Hall 


Headingley 


Otley 


Arthington 


Heckmondwike 


Oulton 


,, Nunnery 


Holbeck 


Pool 


Bardsey 


Little 


Pudsey 


Barwick-in-Elmet 


,, St. Barnabas 


St. Paul 


Batley 


Horsforth 


Rawdon 


,, Carr 


Hunslet 


Robert Town 


Beeston 


St. Jude 


Eothwell 


Birkenshaw 


, , Moor 


Roundhay 


Birstal 


Idle 


Seacroft * 


Boston Spa 


Kippax 


Shadwell 


Bramliam 


„ Allerton-By- 


Sheepscar 


Bramhope 


water 


Sherburn 


Bramley 


Kirkby Overblow 


Shipley 


Burley 


Kirk Deighton 


„ Heaton 


,, near Otley 


Kirkstall 


Spofforth 


Burmantofts 


,, Abbey 


Stainburn 


Buslingtliorpe 


Leathley 


Stanningley, St. Thos, 


Calverley 


Ledsham 


Swillington 


Castleford 


Leeds, St. Peter 


Tadcaster 


Chapel-Allerton 


St. John 


ThornhiU 


Cleckheaton 


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., Lees * 


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,, St. Paul 


Thorner 


Clifford 


,, St. James 


Thorp -Arch 


Collingliam 


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Tong 


Dewsbury 


,, St. Mary 


,, Street 


,, Moor 


,, St. George 


Walton 


St. Mark 


St. Luke 


Weeton 


Drighlington 


,, St. Andrew 


Wetherby 


Earls- Heaton 


,, St. Saviour 


Whitkirk 


East Ardsley 


„ St. Philip 


Wighill 


East Keswick 


,, All Saints 


Woodchurch, Wood- 


Eccleshill 


St. Matthew 


kirk, or West 


Esholt 


„ St. Thomas 


Ardsley 


,, Nunnery 


,, St. Simon 


Woodhouse, St. Mark 


Farnley 


Liversedge 


Woodside 


Farsley 


Lofthouse 


Wortley 


Garforth 


Manston 


„ New 


Gildersome 


Meanwood 


Wrangthorne 


Gomersal 


Methley 


Wyke 


Guiseley 


Middleton 


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BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS; 



liograpljkal Ik%s ai % Wwcfyus of fate attfr $kig(jbimrfjoo& 

From the Norman Conquest to the present time ; 

Compiled from various sources, and arranged in chronological order ; 

With an Introduction on the Study of Biography, 

And copious Indexes. 

BY THE 

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Late Curate of Wortley, near Leeds; 
And formerly an Assistant Master in the Leeds Grammar School, <fec. 

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, &c. 



From the Leeds Intelligencer for April 29th, 1865. 

"We were much surprised on receiving this volume of ' Leeds Worthies' at its 
bulk, but our surprise ceases when, on examination of the table of contents, we fold 
the number of ' worthies ' that Leeds has produced. This work is chiefly addressed 
to the young, and we sincerely hope that they may read it and become interested in 
it. The book embraces many names of men who have spread a reputation far 
beyond this town and even beyond the confines of the county in which it is placed ; 
others who were little known except in the town itself, and others again, the know- 
ledge of whose existence may almost be said to have been limited to the circle of 
their own private acquaintance. The 'Biographia Leodiensis' will, however, be 
found a valuable book of reference, quite sufficient for ordinary and extraordinary 
purposes, but the omission of many names that should have been mentioned, renders 
the work incomplete in the eyes of Leeds men. Besides the biographies themselves, 
the reader will find a very useful list of the vicars, mayors, recorders, coroners, town 
clerks, &c, at the commencement of the volume, which adds much to the complete- 
ness of the work. The same author is now at work on the ' Churches of Leeds,' 
which he intends publishing as a companion to the 'Biographia Leodiensis.' " 



OPINIONS OF THE PRE t 



From the Leeds Mercury for Ma 6th, 1865. 

"In a carefully compiled, and honestly written series of sketches, under the title 
of the 'Biographia Leodiensis,' the Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A., gives the following 
interesting story illustrative of the loyalty of John Harrison." 

See also extracts from " Leeds Worthies," by the Rev. R. V. Taylor, in the 
Leeds Mercury, for April 29th, 1865 ; June 26. 1S65 ; July 3, 1S65, &c. 

See also an extract from " Leeds Worthies," by the Rev. R,. V. Taylor, B A., in 
the Leeds Times fr>r June 17, 1365. 

See also a very long and favourable review in Manchester Examiner tor May, 1865. 

From the Sheffield Independent for January 4, 1866. t 

Biographical Sketches of the Worthies of Leeds and Neighbourhood. By the 
Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1865.— "'The proper 
study of mankind is man,' says Alexander Pope, and if we may judge from the 
great popularity of biographies, he might wifih truth have affirmed that it was the 
favourite as well as the proper study. The late Archbishop Wliately somewhere 
observes, ' Biography is allowed on all hands to be one of the most attractive and 
profitable kinds of reading.' In this age of reading, when everybody above the 
condition of a na-vvy or a day-labourer takes in a periodical or frequents a library, it 
is not the heavier works of philosophy or science that attract the multitude, but 
novels that depict the workings of the human heart, and delineate the character of 
human beings, that are eagerly rim after and read. The more closely these works 
are true to nature the more are they a dm ired by educated readers, and it is only 
among the thoroughly illiterate that admirers can be found for the vulgar trash 
poured out from, week to week in cheap periodicals, filled with impossible situations, 
miserable jokes, and unheard-of catastrophes. As novels are attractive because 
they treat of the ways and doings of men, so biographies of well-known characters 
are attractive, because they reveal the ways and modes of thought of men whose 
names have long been familiar, but whose inner and private life has been "veiled from 
the gaze of the world. A good biography of a public man commands a popularity 
only second to that of a great novel, and it conveys lessons to thoughtful readers far 
more useful than those which the romancer usually endeavours to inculcate. As the 
lives of great public men are gladly read by the nation at large, so if we narrow the 
view and come down from the nation to those microcosms of nations called towns, 
we shall find that the lives of their leading citizens possess a deep interest for those 
among whom they have lived and acted. The Rev. Mr. Taylor was evidently 
impressed with this idea when he conceived the project of compiling a volume of the 
lives of the worthy men who have been identified by birth or residence with the good 
old town of Leeds. He lays no claim to originality of authorship, but he may fairly 
ctaim originality of conception in collecting and publishing such a volume. In laying 
his work before the public, Mr. Taylor appears to have been actuated by the very 
laudable motive of seeking to do some good to the generation that is rising up around 
him, and with whose training he has had some concern as an assistant -master of the 
Leeds Grammar SchooL it is commonly supposed that the narrative of the lives of 
eminent or successful men will fire others to emulate their virtues, and with this 
view most biographies are ostensibly offered to the world. It is rather humiliating to 
t hink of the flood of biographies, and the paucity of their good results. Nine-tenths 
of the men who rise to eminence do so because of the endowments of nature ; but it 
may be that here and there a solitary example can be found of the good done by 
biography — a man whose dormant powers were first called into activity by reading of 
the noble deeds of others, and who but for this spur would have droned on uncon- 
scious of the gifts with which he was blessed. Possibly Mr. Taylor's book may be the 
means of firing some Leeds youth to strive for fame and honour, but it is more Likely 
to lie on the shelves of the subscribers as a useful collection of facts concerning 
departed men, to be consulted with more or less frequency as the tastes or occupa- 
tions of the owners lead them to require such information as it is able to furnish. As 
an experiment in a rather novel line, the volume before us deserves all the success 
that it appears to have met with at the hands of the people of Leeds. Such a book 
having appeared will suggest to writers in other large towns the desirability of 
following in its wake, and doing for their localities what Mr. Taylor has done 
for Leeds." 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, 



From the Bradford Observer for Feb. 1, 1866. 

Leeds Worthies, from the Norman Conquest to the present time. By the 
Rev R V. Taylor, B A. Simpkin, Marshall, & (Jo., London.— "Mr. Taylor was well 
qualified to undertake this compilation, both by an extensive antiquarian knowledge 
and a long and intimate connection with the locality. To these must be added an 
enthusiasm more than mortal, or he would have been not cooled merely but swamped 
in the mud continent of drudgery. The list of the authorities he has waded through 
suggests what to ordinary men would be tantamount to penal servitude for life. But 
the'lexicographer of words or lives, like the poet, nascitur non fit. The stout clerk's 
service that Mr. Taylor's idiosyncracy, helped by his cultiu-e, has enabled him to 
render, is must remarkable in what he has left out of his book. He has elaborated 
the heterogenous masses of material with so much care and skill and taste, that 
nothing irrelevant or redundant, no triviality or verbiage worth speaking of, has got 
in. The result is an epitome of information which will be accepted as a prime 
necessary by every local antiquary, and prove a joy for ever to patriotic Yorkshire- 
men. It will also effect a great saving of time to biographical students ; and, since 
time is life, we may be heartily thankful to the Curate of Wortley for adding on so 
much to ours by such an expenditure of Ms own." 

From the Deivsbury Reporter for Feb. 17, 1866. 

Biographical Sketches of the Worthies of Leeds and Neighbourhood. — " The 
author of this book is the Rev. R. V. Taylor, of Holbeck ; and its title, though it indi- 
cates what is the nature of the contents, does not prepare the reader to expect such 
tliorough treatment as the ' Sketches ' have received. Beginning with the Worthies 
of Leeds at the time of the Conquest, and coming down to the present day, 
Mr. Taylor appears to have lost no opportunity of relating what has been done by the 
leading men of each generation. Birstal men will find a comparatively copious 
memoir of Priestley, the philosopher, within its pages, — a memoir that is sure to 
possess much interest to them ; and men of science, we feel sure will eagerly read 
what is written about one of then' leaders. Local references abound in the notices 
given of the 'Worthies,' and Mr. Taylor has taken such pains in the compilation of 
the work, and given such copious references as cannot fail to make Ins book a 
standard work with the antiquary, and all men living hi the West Riding of any 
literary pretensions." 

From the Wakefield Journal and Examiner for Feb. 23, 1866. 

The Biographia Leodiensis; or, Biographical Sketches of the Worthies of Leeds . 
and Neighbourhood, from the Norman Conquest to the present time. By the 
Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall 
Court. Leeds : John Smith, Commercial Street ; &c— "The work before us exhibits 
many marks of decided originality. The object of the author has evidently been not 
only to give an account of those men connected in any way with Leeds, who have 
left the imprint of their 'footsteps on the sands of time,' but also to afford 
biographies of those who, though not known to national fame, have risen high in the 
estimation of their fellow- citizens, and have become honoured and respected in their 
own immediate locality. Indeed in this respect Mr. Taylor's book is most valuable. 
Every man, of whatever sect or party, who has at all raised himself in the social scale, 
finds a place in this biography, which contains, as well, names of world-wide celebrity. 
The author seems to have pressed into his service every scrap of information which 
he could glean from any source. There are few personages mentioned whose pedi- 
grees are not given, and the features of whose private life are not portrayed. Indeed 
we think that the notion of collecting pedigrees is carried to a rather remote extent. 
The book's circumstantiality, however, is its chief recommendation. It is written 
in a pleasing style, contains a vast amount of excellent information, and will be 
interesting to general readers, as well as useful as a work of reference." 

From the Official list of Awards at the Wakefield Industrial and Fine Art Exhibi- 
tion, 1865, p. 46, 1st. Class Certificate to the Rev. Richard V. Taylor, Curate, Wortley, 
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